Ukrainian prosecutors had knowledgeable Poland concerning the actions.
Warsaw:
A person suspected of aiding a plot by Russian intelligence companies to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been arrested in Poland, Polish and Ukrainian prosecutors mentioned Thursday.
The Polish nationwide, named solely as Pawel Ok., is suspected of supplying info to Russian navy intelligence and “serving to the Russian particular forces to plan a attainable assassination try” in opposition to Zelensky, mentioned an announcement from Polish prosecutors.
It mentioned the suspect had said he was “able to act on behalf of the navy intelligence companies of the Russian Federation and established contact with Russian residents straight concerned within the struggle in Ukraine”.
Ukrainian prosecutors had knowledgeable Poland concerning the actions, which had enabled them to assemble “important proof” in opposition to the suspect, the assertion added.
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor Andriy Kostin mentioned the suspect had been tasked with “gathering and transmitting to the aggressor state details about safety at Rzeszow-Jasionka airport” in southeastern Poland.
Zelensky continuously passes by the airport on his journeys overseas. Additionally it is utilized by overseas officers and help convoys heading to Ukraine.
The suspect is in detention pending judicial procedures, the 2 nations’ prosecutors mentioned.
“This case underscores the persistent risk Russia poses not solely to Ukraine and Ukrainians however to all the free world,” Kostin wrote on X, the previous Twitter.
“The Kremlin’s felony regime… organises and carries out sabotage operations on the territory of different sovereign states,” he added.
Polish Overseas Minister Radoslaw Sikorski recommended the work of his nation’s particular companies and prosecutors within the operation in addition to cooperation with neighbouring Ukraine.
Warsaw has been one in every of Kyiv’s staunchest backers because the Russian invasion in February 2022, though ties have frayed just lately in a dispute over agricultural imports.
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