Prosecutors say Polish nationwide is suspected of supplying info to Russian navy intelligence.
A person has been arrested in Poland on allegations of being able to spy on behalf of Russia’s navy intelligence in an alleged plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Polish prosecutors have stated.
The Polish nationwide, recognized 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” towards Zelenskyy, prosecutors stated in a press release on Thursday.
It stated the suspect had acknowledged he was “able to act on behalf of the navy intelligence companies of the Russian Federation and established contact with Russian residents immediately concerned within the warfare in Ukraine”.
If convicted, the person may resist eight years in jail, the assertion stated.
Ukrainian prosecutors had knowledgeable Poland in regards to the actions, which had enabled them to assemble “important proof” towards the suspect, the assertion added.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor-Normal Andriy Kostin stated the suspect had been tasked with “gathering and transmitting to the aggressor state details about safety at Rzeszow-Jasionka airport” in southeastern Poland.
The airport is underneath the management of United States troops. Zelenskyy often passes by way of the airport on his journeys overseas. It’s also utilized by international officers and help convoys heading to Ukraine.
“This case underscores the persistent risk Russia poses not solely to Ukraine and Ukrainians however to your complete free world,” Kostin wrote on X, previously Twitter.
“The Kremlin’s legal regime… organises and carries out sabotage operations on the territory of different sovereign states,” he added.
Polish International Minister Radoslaw Sikorski counseled the work of his nation’s particular companies and prosecutors within the operation in addition to cooperation with neighbouring Ukraine.
Warsaw has been certainly one of Kyiv’s staunchest backers for the reason that Russian invasion in February 2022, though ties have frayed not too long ago in a dispute over agricultural imports.
