Poland to try suspect in alleged plot by Russia to assassinate Ukraine’s Zelensky
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the target of an assassination plot by Russia's foreign intelligence services, prosecutors said.
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WARSAW - The Polish authorities have indicted a man charged with planning to help Russian foreign intelligence services prepare a possible attempt to assassinate Ukraine's president, prosecutors said on May 20.
The man, identified as Pawel K, was arrested in April 2024
According to prosecutors, he had declared his readiness to act for the military intelligence of the Russian Federation and established contacts with Russians who were directly involved in the war in Ukraine.
“The activities were to help, among other things, in the planning by the Russian special services of a possible assassination attempt on the life of... the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky,” the prosecution said in a statement.
Pawel K’s tasks included collecting and providing information on security at the Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport in south-eastern Poland, prosecutors said.
Poland, a hub for Western military supplies to Ukraine, says it has become a major target of Russian spies, accusing Moscow and its ally Belarus of trying to destabilise it – accusations which the Kremlin has repeatedly denied. REUTERS
