A man suspected of aiding a plot by Russian intelligence services to assassinate Volodymyr Zelensky has been arrested in Poland.
The Polish national, named only as Pawel K, is suspected of supplying information to Russian military intelligence to help Russian special forces plan an attempt on the Ukrainian president’s life, Polish prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the suspect had stated he was “ready to act on behalf of the military intelligence services of the Russian Federation and established contact with Russian citizens directly involved in the war in Ukraine”.
Ukrainian prosecutors informed Poland about the activities, which had enabled them to gather “essential evidence” against the suspect.
Airport security secrets
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor, Andriy Kostin, said the suspect had been tasked with “gathering and transmitting to the aggressor state information about security at Rzeszow-Jasionka airport” in south-eastern Poland.
Mr Zelensky passes through the airport frequently on his trips abroad. It is also used by foreign officials and aid convoys heading to Ukraine.
The suspect is in detention pending judicial procedures, the two countries’ prosecutors said.
“This case underscores the persistent threat Russia poses not only to Ukraine and Ukrainians but to the entire free world,” Mr Kostin wrote on X.
“The Kremlin’s criminal regime... organises and carries out sabotage operations on the territory of other sovereign states.”
Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, commended the work of his country’s special services and prosecutors as well as their cooperation with Ukraine.
Warsaw has been one of Kyiv’s staunchest backers since the Russian invasion in February 2022, although ties have frayed recently in a dispute over agricultural imports.
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