A joint operation involving Polish and US services stopped a planned attack, while Warsaw warns that Moscow\u2019s reach may extend beyond Russia.<\/p>\n
In Poland, a Russian citizen was detained after being recruited by Russian intelligence services to prepare the murder in Warsaw of a U.S. citizen of Ukrainian descent. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced this.<\/p>\n
According to him, the planned attack was thwarted during a joint operation by Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency, the police, and U.S. intelligence services. The potential victim, as the head of the Polish government noted, was inconvenient for Putin\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n
At the last moment, thanks to an operation by the Internal Security Agency and the police, this execution, this assassination attempt, was prevented.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Donald Tusk<\/p>\n
Joint Operation by Poland and the United States<\/p>\n
Donald Tusk thanked Polish law enforcement officers and U.S. intelligence services for their cooperation. He also called this the first case in which Russia had prepared an assassination attempt against a U.S. citizen in another NATO country.<\/p>\n
The Polish prime minister warned that Russian authorities may continue trying to pursue people they consider undesirable outside Russia.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, we must assume that Putin\u2019s regime will try to eliminate people who are inconvenient for various reasons in different parts of the world.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Donald Tusk<\/p>\n
Poland Strengthens Security Measures<\/p>\n
According to Donald Tusk, Polish services are stepping up their efforts to prevent further attacks on the country\u2019s territory. This concerns both the protection of Polish citizens and the safety of foreigners staying in the country.<\/p>\n
Our actions in this matter will be exceptionally intensive in order to prevent any possible further attempts targeting citizens of Poland or other countries on the territory of our state.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Donald Tusk<\/p>\n
The detained Russian citizen remains in the custody of Polish law enforcement authorities as part of the investigation into the preparation of an assassination attempt in Warsaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A joint operation involving Polish and US services stopped a planned attack, while Warsaw warns that Moscow\u2019s reach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[13211,64,101,4387,13210,4649,13188,13212],"class_list":["post-21038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-tusk","tag-assassination-plot","tag-donald-tusk","tag-news","tag-poland-security","tag-poland-security-russian-intelligence-assassination-plot-warsaw-attack-donald-tusk-us-citizen","tag-russian-intelligence","tag-us-citizen","tag-warsaw-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038","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=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}