Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov sat at the same negotiating table in Abu Dhabi with Dmitry Minayev, a senior official of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) accused of organizing an assassination attempt against him, during trilateral talks between representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the United States, Ukraine's UNIAN news agency reports.
According to the report, Minayev was included in the expert group of the Russian delegation. He serves as head of the FSB's Department of Counterintelligence Operations.
The Ukrainian side links the department headed by Minayev to a failed assassination attempt against Budanov in 2019.
Former head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Hrytsak accused Minayev in April 2019 of organizing the killings of Ukrainian intelligence officers Oleksandr Kharaberiush and Maksym Shapoval. Ukrainian officials also linked the department under his leadership to the assassination attempt against Budanov.
On April 4, 2019, an attempt was made to plant an explosive device under Budanov's car in Kyiv. The device exploded while being planted, seriously injuring the person suspected of carrying out the attempt. Ukrainian investigators claimed that the operation had been planned on the orders of Russian intelligence services.
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