A woman in Ukraine has been arrested for her involvement in an alleged plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky during his recent trip to Mykolaiv. The Ukrainian Security Service claims that the woman was caught providing information to the Russians, including Zelensky's itinerary. The plan involved a potential airstrike ordered by Russia to kill Zelensky.
The country's law enforcement branch claimed the woman, who has not been named, was"caught red-handed" when giving information to the Russians that included Zelensky's full itinerary. If the plan had gone through, an airstrike would have been ordered by Russia, which they hoped would kill Zelensky, according to ABC News.The woman had also allegedly taken photographs and video of defense systems and ammunition warehouses throughout the Ochakov region.
“The Ukrainian Security Service continued to document the criminal actions of the enemy accomplice in order to obtain new data about her Russian ‘curators’ and the tasks received,” officials said in a news release Monday.
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