Russia puts Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on its wanted list

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News/AP

May 4, 2024, 12:09 PM


Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database.

As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry's list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Gen. Oleksandr Pavlyuk, was also on the list.

Russian officials did not immediately clarify the allegations against any of the men. Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet, claimed Saturday that both Zelenskyy and Poroshenko had been listed since at least late February.

In an online statement published that same day, Ukraine’s foreign ministry dismissed the reports of Zelenskyy’s inclusion as evidence of “the desperation of the Russian state machine and propaganda.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-puts-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-wanted-list-109929040

[Srkdqltr]

1. Of course they did.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The crime: saying NO to Putin.

[OnDoutside]

3. Well I'm shocked anyway....

[GB_RN]

4. And So Official Policy Catches Up...

To what unofficial, but actual, Russian military policy and actions would have been had they ever caught Zelenskyy before Putin decided he needed “Most Wanted” and/or ”Wanted Dead or Alive” posters being tacked up.

Putin’s not fooling anyone…except for his own, gullible citizens. And damn, it certainly appears that a pretty sizable majority of them are gullible as hell. Kinda like his followers over here, the GOPQ-balls in Congress and the MAGAts who vote for them.

[doc03]

5. Like he wasnt already. nt

[Lovie777]

6. He's been on it since day one...........................

there are probably a lot more head of states on that list as well. Putin wants to rule the world.

[JoseBalow]

7. So that's how war works, go after the enemy leader!

Who knew?

[onetexan]

8. Likewise, UKR do the same for pootie

[bluestarone]

9. POOTY is on everybodys

WANTED DEAD list!

[Evolve Dammit]

10. I assumed all of Ukraine was on that list given the invasion and war crimes...?

[Emrys]

11. They sent a succession of assassination squads to Kyiv to murder Zelensky in the first wave of the current invasion

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All were intercepted and dispatched. It's hard to see why this announcement is news.

Putin and many of his entourage can't venture outside Russia for fear of arrest for war crimes. Meanwhile, Putin, like so many Russian dictators, is almost certainly more at risk from threats from within.

[Warpy]

12. This is news?

They've been trying to assassinate him since he was first elected.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Well apparently Russia made it "officially public"

[Warpy]

14. Yeah, I'm sure Zelensky is quaking in his boots

as he visits close enough to the front to hear the shelling so he can award medals there.

[Aussie105]

15. A futile attempt

on the part of the Russian propaganda machine to say . . .

"We are not the bad guys here!"

Entirely for internal consumption within Russia.