The Minister of the Interior of Colombia, Armando Benedetti, warned on Monday that the Government has received “quite serious intelligence information” about a possible attack against President Gustavo Petro.

“Rately serious intelligence information has arrived, especially the last week (…) of an attack (…) The information that has arrived is quite serious (…) This time things were quite reliable to believe and fear that something may be in progress,” Benedetti said in an interview with Caracol Radio.

The minister highlighted that “there are some people who have been meeting who would like to hit the president.”

Last week, Petro accused US Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, a member of the House of Representatives for the Republican Party, of leading meetings with those seeking to remove him from office.

Petro also accused former Chancellor Álvaro Leyva of contacting the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Venezuela, where the Government and that guerrillas were negotiating peace, to see how to get him out of office.

He also said that Leyva, the first foreign minister of his government between August 2022 and February 2024, is part of the “plot” that “is not of Colombians, even if there are Colombians,” and “therefore it is very dangerous because it is an attack on the national sovereignty of Colombia, democracy and the freedom of Colombians.”

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Monday that he would “fly if he thought it would be useful” to the meeting proposed by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, next Thursday in Turkey to pave the way for talks for a future ceasefire.

Trump, who is touring Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates this week, insisted that both countries must sit down at the table to agree on a cessation of hostilities.

“I don’t know where I’ll be at that particular moment. I will be somewhere in the Middle East, but I would fly there (to Turkey) if I thought it would be useful,” he told journalists before embarking on the trip abroad, the first since he returned to power in January.

Kiev informed its European allies on Monday that “the Russians are completely ignoring the offer of a complete and lasting 30-day ceasefire” that should have begun this Monday, according to information received directly from the Ukrainian Army.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrí Sibiga reported that Zelenski has not received a response to the offer made on Sunday to Putin to meet with him in person in Turkey on Thursday and begin at the highest level the direct negotiations that Russia wants to open without first declaring a ceasefire.

Zelenski responded with this invitation to Putin’s proposal to start direct negotiations between both sides this Thursday in Turkey, which the Ukrainian leader raised to the highest level.

Sibiga also implied that Ukraine’s proposal to engage in dialogue is still standing despite the fact that Putin has not accepted the truce demanded of Kiev and several European countries.

The US president had already urged Ukraine on Sunday to accept “immediately” the invitation made by Russia to meet in Turkey and determine if an agreement is possible.

The Republican leader indicated on his network, Truth Social, that “Russia does not want to have a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to the BLOOD BATH.”

The leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland threatened on Saturday from Kiev to approve new sanctions against Russia if the Kremlin did not agree to put down the weapons for 30 days starting this Monday.

According to these leaders from Kiev, Trump supported this ultimatum and was willing to coordinate the sanctions with the Europeans if Putin refused to put down his weapons again.