Yesterday evening, a shooting took place near Donald Trump’s golf club in Florida while the US presidential candidate himself was there.
Initially, the former president’s press service reported that the shooting had taken place somewhere in the vicinity and that Trump was not injured. According to some media sources, it did not look like another attempt on the politician’s life. It was reported that the shooting was between two men who were aiming at each other.
However, the FBI later reported that it was investigating an alleged assassination attempt on the former president and even detained a suspect. According to CNN, one of the Secret Service officers allegedly noticed a rifle barrel sticking out of the fence and opened fire in that direction. Later, law enforcement officers detained a male suspect in a car on the highway.
The suspect was identified as Ryan Wesley Routt, and according to CNN, he is an active supporter of Ukraine and visited it in 2022, reports Komersant ukrainskyi
According to video footage and images allegedly from Kyiv’s Independence Square, Rout arrived in Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion began more than two years ago.
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A CNN video shows Raut participating in a rally in support of the Ukrainian military on Maidan on 1 May 2022, and about six weeks later he visited the site again, where he was photographed next to a Ukrainian flag that included an appeal for international volunteers to support the war.
Raut also expressed strong support for Ukraine on social media. In dozens of posts on the X platform in 2022, he declared his readiness to die for Ukraine’s struggle and wrote that “we need to burn the Kremlin to the ground”.
“I AM READY TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND THE BORDER WITH UKRAINE TO VOLUNTEER, FIGHT AND DIE… Can I be an example? We have to win,”
– Raut wrote in March 2022 on X.
Last year, Raut also used his Facebook account to call on foreigners to join the ranks of Ukraine’s defenders. Starting in October 2023, he published a series of posts in which he tried to attract the Afghan military, presenting himself as an unofficial liaison of the Ukrainian government.
“Soldiers of Afghanistan – Ukraine is interested in 3000 soldiers, so I need the passport of every soldier who has one to send to Ukraine.”
– Raut wrote in one of his posts published in English and Pashto.