*{box-sizing:border-box}body{margin:0;padding:0}a[x-apple-data-detectors]{color:inherit!important;text-decoration:inherit!important}#MessageViewBody a{color:inherit;text-decoration:none}p{line-height:inherit}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{mso-hide:all;display:none;max-height:0;overflow:hidden}.image_block img div{display:none}sub,sup{line-height:0;font-size:75%}#converted-body .list_block ol,#converted-body .list_block ul,.body [class~=x_list_block] ol,.body [class~=x_list_block] ul,u .body .list_block ol,u .body .list_block ul{padding-left:20px} @media (max-width:620px){.desktop_hide table.icons-outer{display:inline-table!important}.image_block div.fullWidth{max-width:100%!important}.mobile_hide{display:none}.row-content{width:100%!important}.stack .column{width:100%;display:block}.mobile_hide{min-height:0;max-height:0;max-width:0;overflow:hidden;font-size:0}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{display:table!important;max-height:none!important}.reverse{display:table;width:100%}.reverse .column.first{display:table-footer-group!important}.reverse .column.last{display:table-header-group!important}.row-11 td.column.first .border,.row-7 td.column.first .border,.row-9 td.column.first .border{padding:5px 5px 15px 25px;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0}.row-11 td.column.last .border,.row-7 td.column.last .border,.row-9 td.column.last .border{padding:5px 20px 25px 5px;border-top:0;border-right:0;border-bottom:0;border-left:0}} Presented by Lockheed Martin — Ukrainian military units are denying links to Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect arrested in an apparent assassination attempt against former President Trump.{beacon} Defense &
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Ukrainian military units are denying links to Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect arrested in an apparent assassination attempt against former President Trump.
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The International Legion of Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, part of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate under the Ministry of Defense, said Routh had no relation to the unit, in a statement posted to the social platform X.
“American citizen Ryan Routh has never served in the International Legion of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, has no relation to the unit. Rumors disseminated in certain media are not true,” the group said in a statement.
The Azov Brigade also denied links to Routh after a video surfaced that showed Routh in Kyiv attending a rally in support of the military unit. In a statement, the brigade raised the warning that efforts to link Routh to Ukrainian military units plays along with Russian propaganda discrediting Ukrainian forces.
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