Polish intelligence has arrested a Russian man suspected of planning the assassination of a man holding both Ukrainian and US citizenship, government sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The targeted person was an irritant to the ruling system of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Prime Minister Donald Tusk, talking of successful cooperation with US intelligence services.<\/p>\n
“Thanks to lightning-fast action, we were able to pre-empt this execution,” Tusk said.<\/p>\n
The arrest took place on August 7, Polish intelligence services coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak posted on X.<\/p>\n
Acting on the instructions of a foreign intelligence service, the Russian national had allegedly been preparing to commit the assassination in Warsaw.<\/p>\n
“This is the first case in which someone from Russia has planned an attack on a US citizen on the territory of a NATO country,” said Tusk.<\/p>\n
Kremlin critic killed in June<\/p>\n
In mid-June, the fatal shooting of a Kremlin-critical Russian artist living in exile in Poland made headlines. At the time, Tusk described it as a politically motivated murder. A suspect was arrested.<\/p>\n
Poland, a member of the European Union and NATO, is a key political and military supporter of Ukraine, which is fighting to repel a full-scale Russian invasion for the fifth year.<\/p>\n
Poland has also taken in almost a million refugees from neighbouring Ukraine. The government in Warsaw accuses the spy agencies of Russia and its ally Belarus of sending large numbers of operatives into the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish intelligence has arrested a Russian man suspected of planning the assassination of a man holding both Ukrainian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64,9156,13189,9,13187,11403,13188,518,45],"class_list":["post-20984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-donald-tusk","tag-foreign-intelligence-service","tag-government-sources","tag-poland","tag-polish-intelligence","tag-suspected","tag-us-citizen","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-warsaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}