We don't need them – President's Office on assassination attempt on propagandist Simonyan and TV presenter Sobchak

Mykhailo Podoliak, an advisor to the head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, has said that Russian propagandist Margarita Simonyan and TV host Ksenia Sobchak "do not have impact on anything", and therefore Ukrainian security services could not have planned an assassination attempt on them.

Source: Podoliak on air during the 24/7 national joint newscast

Quote: "We definitely do not need them. They have no impact on anything. They do not play an important role in what is happening today, neither within the framework of the war as a whole nor within the framework of Russia's loss of positions in the global sense. They are meaningless."

Background:

• On 15 July, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) stated that it had supposedly prevented the assassination of Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak by the "Ukrainian security services".
• The detained Russians told the FSB that they had supposedly prepared the assassination attempts "on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine" for a reward of 1.5 million roubles [approximately US$16,500 – ed.] for each murder.
• Moscow's Basmanny Court has ordered the arrest of seven members of nationalist organisations who are allegedly suspected of attempting to assassinate Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak. Supporters of the detainees are saying they have been tortured. 

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