Ukrainian prosecutors had knowledgeable Poland concerning the actions.
Warsaw:
A person suspected of aiding a plot by Russian intelligence providers to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been arrested in Poland, Polish and Ukrainian prosecutors mentioned Thursday.
The Polish nationwide, named solely as Pawel Okay., is suspected of supplying info to Russian navy intelligence and ”serving to the Russian particular forces to plan a attainable assassination try” towards Zelensky, mentioned an announcement from Polish prosecutors.
It mentioned the suspect had said he was ”able to act on behalf of the navy intelligence providers 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” towards 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 often passes by means of the airport on his journeys overseas. Additionally it is utilized by international officers and help convoys heading to Ukraine.
The suspect is in detention pending judicial procedures, the 2 international locations’ prosecutors mentioned.
”This case underscores the persistent menace Russia poses not solely to Ukraine and Ukrainians however to the whole free world,” Kostin wrote on X, the previous Twitter.
”The Kremlin’s prison 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 providers and prosecutors within the operation in addition to cooperation with neighbouring Ukraine.
Warsaw has been one in all Kyiv’s staunchest backers because the Russian invasion in February 2022, though ties have frayed not too long ago in a dispute over agricultural imports.
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