2023-08-07 22:02:00
The Ukrainian security services (SBU) assured this Monday the 7th that they arrested a woman accused of having helped Russia prepare an attack against President Volodimir Zelensky on a visit to southern Ukraine. According to the authorities, it was an “informant of the secret services” of the Kremlin.
Through a statement, the SBU reported that it had arrested an “informant of the Russian secret services who was collecting information about the president’s planned visit to the Mykolaiv region,” near the front line, in view of an “air strike massive”. The woman was arrestedin fragrant” when he tried to pass information to the Russian secret services. Due to the fact, faces 12 years in jailspecified the security services.
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The alleged informant was a neighbor of Ochakov, worked in the store of a military base and “tried to find the time and the list of places included in the provisional itinerary of the head of state in the region”, indicated the same source. The SBU released a blurry photo of the detainee, as well as phone messages and handwritten notes about military activities.
In this regard, Zelensky stressed on Monday through Telegram that the SBU had informed him of this attempted attack and of the “fight against traitors” in Ukraine. The leader visited the Mykolaiv region in June after the destruction of the Kajovka dam, which caused flooding and the evacuation of around 17,000 inhabitants in large parts of the south of the country after shelling.
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In the statement, the SBU said it took “additional security measures” for Zelensky’s visit, but did not immediately arrest the woman. “to obtain new information about his Russian ‘godfathers’ and the tasks assigned to him”. In this sense, the suspect sought to obtain information on the location of Ukrainian electronic warfare systems and ammunition storage warehouses.
This is not the first arrest for similar causes in the last month in the area. In this regard, just over three weeks ago it was learned the arrest of an alleged Russian spy, who was plotting an attack in the same region. In his case, as revealed by the SBU, the man inspected a military hospital, took pictures of it and passed information on the exact location of the Ukrainian military.
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