Russian intelligence agencies are planning a "Maidan" in Ukraine to overthrow Zelensky, according to Gulagu.net.

The Russian Federal Security Service is preparing a "Maidan" in Kyiv to overthrow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This is reported by the Russian public project Gulagu.net, citing sources in Moscow.

According to an insider, at least two departments and divisions of the FSB of Russia, along with one of the operational units of the foreign intelligence service, are working together to organize protests in the capital of Ukraine. Manipulative narratives about the Ukrainian president, particularly those proclaimed by U.S. President Donald Trump, will be employed.

The same source warned the authors of the article at the end of 2024 about the Russian special services' preparations for an information-psychological operation against Volodymyr Zelensky. According to volunteers from the Gulagu.net project, Russians are currently planning to take more decisive actions, engage their intelligence apparatus in Ukraine, and bring individuals into the Office of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine who would agree to all of Moscow's terms.

Trump's Statements About Ukraine and Zelensky

The authors of the Gulagu.net project note that Zelensky personally insulted Trump with his second refusal: the first occurred during his first term in the White House when, in September 2019, the Ukrainian president rejected his request to investigate the case against the son of his opponent Joe Biden—Hunter Biden. The scandal, dubbed "Ukraingate," nearly led to Trump's impeachment. Now, after the refusal to sign an agreement for the transfer of 50% of Ukraine's resources to American companies, the U.S. president has begun publicly attacking Volodymyr Zelensky and has "stooped to obvious lies," the volunteers write.

Trump echoed the narrative of Russian propaganda suggesting that Zelensky's presidential rating is allegedly at 4%, and recalled the Ukrainian leader's statement that he did not know where half of the $350 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine went.

Additionally, Donald Trump criticized the Ukrainian president's remark that Kyiv was not invited to the negotiations between Russia and the U.S. in Saudi Arabia.

"Today I heard, 'Oh, we weren't invited.' You've been in this for 3 years! You should have finished this 3 years ago; you should have never started. You could have made a deal," the U.S. president stated.

At the same time, Trump did not utter any negative words towards the aggressor country's president, Vladimir Putin.

It is worth noting that on the night of February 18-19, during a press conference in Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump stated that he would hold a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin by the end of February and expressed his belief that "Russia wants to stop this madness."

On February 18, the Financial Times reported that Trump could withdraw all troops from the Baltic states at Vladimir Putin's request.