A Ukrainian woman has been arrested by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in connection with a plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, the SBU said Monday, August 7.
The woman has not been publicly named but is from the city of Mykolaiv, officials said. She allegedly planned to send details of Zelensky's trip to the city for a coordinated Russian air strike.
According
to Ukraine's SBU intelligence service, the suspect was "gathering
intelligence" about the Ukrainian president's planned visit to the
Mykolaiv region of Ukraine at the end of July.
Ukrainian
intelligence officials were tipped off about the "subversive activities"
of the alleged informant before she could strike.
The plot
would have seen a massive airstrike target Ukraine’s leader while he was
visiting the region last week near the south-eastern front.
The
woman allegedly planned to pass information to the Russians on
Zelensky’s exact whereabouts in the city. Moscow would then target these
exact areas with the aim of killing Zelensky, according to the SBU.
The
informant apparently had other goals as well including passing the
locations of key military targets to Russian forces. She allegedly
travelled around the region filming military sites.
"The enemy informer had other goals. In particular, to identify the location of electronic warfare systems and warehouses with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ochakov region," the SBU said in a statement.
