JAKARTA - Polish authorities have charged a man with planning an assassination attempt against Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The defendant is known to have helped Russia's foreign intelligence agency.
The man identified as Pawel K. was arrested in April 2024 after a collaboration between Polish prosecutors and Ukraine, and faces up to eight years in prison.
According to prosecutors, Pawel expressed his readiness to act on behalf of the military intelligence of the Russian Federation and establish contact with the Russian side directly involved in the war in Ukraine.
"The activity aims to help, among other things, the planning by the Russian special service for a possible attempted assassination of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy", prosecutors said in a statement reported by Reuters on Tuesday, May 20.
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The duties of Pawel K. include collecting and providing information about security at Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport in southeastern Poland, prosecutors said.
Poland, which is the center of Western military supplies to Ukraine, has become the main target of Russian spies. Poland said Moscow and its allies of Belarus caused chaos.
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