The killer was given his weapon at the Ukrainian embassy: oligarch Kolomoisky revealed details of the assassination attempt on Mindich in Israel

Businessman Ihor Kolomoisky, who has been held in pre-trial detention for two years, has revealed details of an assassination attempt on “Midas” case figure Tymur Mindich during a hearing at the Pechersk District Court in Kyiv.

This was reported by media from the courtroom.

According to the businessman, the attempt on Mindich in Israel was carried out by a person who obtained a weapon at the Ukrainian embassy.

“It was a Makarov pistol with a silencer. These Ukrainians somehow turned to the Ukrainian embassy over their documents. There they were recruited and given the task regarding Mindich,” Kolomoisky said.

He added that the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel cannot know the details of the attempted murder, and that the crime is being investigated in Israel by the internal security service, so the local police do not have the necessary information. (Yesterday the police claimed there was no attempted murder at all.)

The businessman also said that the killer tried to obtain information to carry out the contract by posing as a journalist.

“One of the ‘freelancers’ walked around for three weeks and talked to the housekeeper. He introduced himself as an Israeli journalist and asked whether Mindich lived there. The housekeeper chased him away. This was around 14–15 November. She later identified him,” Kolomoisky said.

This essentially confirms the version of MP Oleksiy Honcharenko that the perpetrators mixed up the houses of Mindich and Kolomoisky.

After effectively accusing the Ukrainian authorities of organizing the attempt on Mindich’s life, Kolomoisky made several rather complimentary remarks about Volodymyr Zelensky. According to him, it is in the president’s interest that Mindich stay alive.

“All the more so, they’re friends,” the businessman added.

He also said that he views Andriy Yermak’s resignation “with mixed feelings”: he really dislikes the former head of the Presidential Office but believes there is no worthy replacement for him.

“The president is now left without hands,” Kolomoisky said.

He also stated that holding elections during the war would be “a catastrophe; the president needs to pull himself together and continue defending the interests of the country.” In his view, hostilities must first end, and only after that can peace talks be possible.

It should be noted that the Pechersk Court hearing concerned the extension of pre-trial detention for Kolomoisky in the PrivatBank case. The defense filed a motion to recuse the judge, and she retired to the deliberation room. No decision was issued today.

Journalists then went to the Podilskyi Court, where another hearing was scheduled for 15:00 — in the Ukrnafta case. That session was also supposed to consider extending the preventive measure, but the court postponed it because Kolomoisky was not brought there in time from the Pechersk Court.

Recall that yesterday Kolomoisky was finally brought to court after several postponed hearings, at which he had promised to make a high-profile statement. At yesterday’s hearing, the businessman began talking about the attempt on Mindich’s life.