The Nationwide Prosecutor’s Workplace of Poland announced Thursday that it introduced fees towards a person suspected of espionage for Russia and involvement in an alleged plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The investigation was carried out by each Ukrainian and Polish businesses.
The report states that the person, a Polish nationwide recognized as Paweł Ok, expressed a willingness to behave for Russian intelligence and was in communication with Russian residents who had been straight concerned within the warfare in Ukraine. His duties allegedly included amassing info on the safety of the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport. He’s additionally accused of serving to Russian particular companies coordinate a possible assault on Zelensky.
The person was arrested in Poland and, if discovered responsible, faces as much as eight years in jail.
Prosecutor Common of Ukraine Andriy Kostin said on X (previously Twitter):
This case underscores the persistent menace Russia poses not solely to Ukraine and Ukrainians however to all the free world. The Kremlin’s felony regime is continually attempting to undermine European and international safety. It organizes and carries out sabotage operations on the territory of different sovereign states.
Zelensky beforehand said that he has been the topic of six assassination makes an attempt in the previous couple of years. Included among the many makes an attempt was the declare that, on the primary day of the Russian invasion in February 2022, Moscow airdropped particular forces into Kyiv to assassinate him.
