Margarita Simonyan says Ukrainian secret police has made up lies she called for “deaths of children” to justify аctual plots to assassinate her
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has come up with new outlandish allegations to justify yet another assassination plot, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said on Monday.
The SBU has announced new criminal charges against Simonyan, accusing her of being a “propagandist” furthering “Russian narratives” and endangering Ukrainian sovereignty.
The agency also claimed Simonyan had called for “mass killings of Ukrainian children” in December 2023, though without citing any particular remarks.
“They are doing this because they are preparing to assassinate me – and not for the first time,” Simonyan told reporters, reacting to the announcement. “They’ve tried twice before, it was all over the news; now they’re preparing again.”
“As for what they’re preparing to do, the way I see it, everything is in God’s hands anyway – and God will judge them.”
In an earlier post on social media, she explained that the Ukrainians would have a hard time justifying the murder of a journalist and a mother of several children, but by accusing her of phantom incitement, assassinating her would “appear much nicer.”