Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shrugged off reports that there have been multiple attempts on his life during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Asked about threats against him in recent interviews, Mr Zelenskyy has shifted the discussion to the plight of those still living in Ukraine.
Speaking recently with Time and 60 Minutes Australia, he said his personal situation was "not bad'" compared with many others in the country.
Here's what we know about reports of attempts against his life, and what Ukraine's current line of succession appears to look like.
What do we know about alleged assassination attempts?
There were reports of multiple assassination attempts against Mr Zelenskyy in the first week of Russia's military offensive in Ukraine.
On the first day of the invasion, Thursday, February 24, 2022, he was in the presidential offices in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
According to Time, Ukraine's military told the President that Russian strike teams had parachuted into the city to kill or capture him and his family — including his wife Olena, their teenage daughter and young son, who have since fled Kyiv.
"Before that night, we had only ever seen such things in the movies," Andriy Yermak, the president's chief of staff, reportedly said.
Russian troops allegedly "came within minutes of finding [Mr Zelenskyy] and his family in the first hours of the war", he reportedly said, and gunfire could be heard from inside his office walls.
On the evening of the first day, as gunfights broke out around the government quarter, guards reportedly handed assault rifles and bulletproof vests to Mr Zelenskyy and around a dozen of his aides.
"It was an absolute madhouse," one of the aides reportedly said.
"Automatics for everyone."
Russian troops allegedly made two attempts to storm the compound that day.
On the third day of the invasion, Saturday, February 26, 2022, an assassination attempt was foiled on the outskirts of Kyiv, according to a report from The Times.
The report stated that at least two different groups were aiming to kill Mr Zelenskyy.
One was the Russian private military company the Wagner Group. The Kremlin denies having any connection with the group, despite other countries suggesting otherwise.
The second was the Chechen special forces, a paramilitary organisation that serves the head of the Chechen Republic in Russia.
The Times reported that both groups were foiled by "anti-war elements within Russia's Federal Security Service", who allegedly shared information with Ukrainian forces about the planned attacks.
The report claimed the Wagner Group was shocked at how prepared Ukraine was for the attacks.
What has Mr Zelenskyy said about attempts on his life?
Mr Zelenskyy has spoken very little about assassination attempts against him.
He shrugged off the dangers facing him in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia, in which he claimed that things have been more difficult for others in Ukraine.
During the interview, reporter Tom Steinfort told Mr Zelenskyy he was still "target number one for Russia".
"Reports suggest there have been 10 foiled assassination attempts on you," he said. "It must be unnerving knowing how much certain people want you dead."
"Well, that's 10 assassination attempts — means that there's only 10 people willing to have me killed," Mr Zelenskyy replied.
How many assassination attempts have there been?
There are conflicting reports about the number of alleged attempts against Mr Zelenskyy's life during Russia's invasion.
In early March, the head of Ukraine's National Security Council, Oleksiy Danilov, reportedly said Mr Zelenskyy had survived three assassination attempts in the first week of the war.
Two weeks into Russia's invasion, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliyak told Ukrayinska Pravda that international estimates about the number of assassination attempts were too low.
"Our foreign partners are talking about two or three attempts. I believe that there were more than a dozen such attempts," he said.
Despite this, the true number of assassination attempts since the beginning of the invasion is impossible to verify.
When Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, Mr Podoliyak claimed that "Russia's key intention is to remove the country's top leadership, create maximum panic, and try to establish its own puppet government", according to Ukrainian media.
"The only goal is to go to Kyiv and destroy the leadership of Ukraine, to personally destroy President Volodymyr Zelenskyy," the presidential adviser said on February 25.
Mr Zelenskyy has since remained defiant in the face of Russia's aggression and amid concerns from allies around the world, meeting publicly (and sometimes outdoors) with officials from other countries.
What would likely happen if Mr Zelenskyy died?
During an interview with CBS in early March, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Ukrainian government had prepared for the potential death of Mr Zelenskyy, but he didn't disclose any details of the plan.
As The New York Times reported, while Mr Zelenskyy's chief of staff Andriy Yermak is widely seen as the second-most-powerful politician in Ukraine, the chain of succession in the country's constitution calls for the speaker of parliament to take command if a president dies.
The current Speaker is Ruslan Stefanchuk, who Time reported had driven to the presidential offices in Kyiv on the morning of Russia's invasion, instead of sheltering elsewhere. He was reportedly evacuated to western Ukraine at a later date.
Beyond the speaker, Ukraine's line of succession wasn't entirely clear, RAND Corporation researcher Khrystyna Holynska said.
When Mr Zelenskyy and Mr Stefanchuk were both ill with COVID-19 in 2020, Ukrainian legal scholars said the country's Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, would be third in line to take over.
US and European officials have said that Mr Stefanchuk and others in the line of succession were expected to continue to oppose the Russian invasion.
