A joint intelligence operation between Poland and Ukraine has led to the arrest of a Polish national on suspicion of carrying out hostile reconnaissance at an airport used by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for international flights.
Anna Adamiak, a prosecutor at the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office, said this during the investigation of Polish national “Paweł K.” Although the investigation was ongoing, he is believed to have been in contact with Russian intelligence services and individuals involved in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and was tasked with gathering intelligence at Rzeszów Jashonka airport. The airport in Rzeszów in eastern Poland is currently across the border from the Ukrainian city of Lviv, and President Zelenskiy frequently uses it for international flights rather than domestic airports due to the obvious risks. .
Prosecutor Adamiak said: “The results of the investigation indicate that the suspect’s mission includes gathering information to help plan a possible assassination attempt on the life of the President of Ukraine by the Russian military…The suspect is preparing for action. Cases of foreign intelligence activities against the Republic of Poland for which the person was charged with reporting shall qualify under Article 2. Article 130, Article 3 of the Penal Code. This act is punishable by up to eight years in prison. ”
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Polish broadcaster Polsat report Paweł K. was to liaise with Russian military intelligence and “assist Russian special services in planning a possible attack on the life of a foreign head of state, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy.”
Exactly how the attack took place has not been publicly speculated, but the NATO member’s airport is protected by U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles. times of london report. The airport is also frequently used by foreign politicians to visit Ukraine and to deliver aid supplies, the paper said. In the case of political visitors, subsequent travel to Ukraine is usually carried out by rail, using one of the series of special VIP trains of Ukrainian Railways.
In response to this report, Russia incited Ukraine to say that the arrest was not actually evidence of a Russian conspiracy to kill Zelensky at a European airport, but was in fact a preparation for an attempt by the West to dispose of Zelensky. He said it was a fabricated story. President of Ukraine.
The investigation was carried out in cooperation with Poland’s Internal Security Service, the State Prosecutor’s Office, the Masovian (Warsaw) branch of the Ministry of Organized Crime and Corruption, and the Ukrainian intelligence service, the report said. Ukraine’s security services said the arrests were “due to the close cooperation of the SBU, the Prosecutor’s Office and Polish law enforcement… thanks to effective actions and efficient exchange of information between the two countries, the arrests were made by the investigators employed by the Russian authorities. He has been identified.” He was then detained on Polish territory. ”
The arrest is just the latest in a series of Russian spies and saboteurs being held in European countries on charges ranging from attempted assassinations and attacks to espionage by abusing their diplomatic status. Two men were arrested in Poland this week over a hammer attack on exiled critic of Vladimir Putin in Lithuania in March. They will be extradited to Lithuania for criminal proceedings.
In Germany, two German-Russian dual nationals were arrested this week on suspicion of conducting reconnaissance on military bases and plotting to bomb a U.S. military base in Germany used to train Ukrainian tank crews. . Last year, 14 “Russian spies,” including many Ukrainian “refugees,” were convicted in a separate conspiracy to spy on and sabotage military supply trains transporting equipment from Europe to Ukraine.
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