The Ukrainian security services (SBU) said Monday that they arrested a woman accused of having helped Russia prepare an attack against President Volodymyr Zelensky on a visit to southern Ukraine.
The SBU said in a statement that it had arrested an “informant for 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 a “massive airstrike.”
The woman 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,” the same source said.
The SBU released a blurry photo of this woman, as well as phone messages and handwritten notes about military activities.
Zelensky stressed on Telegram on Monday 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 Kakhovka dam, which caused flooding in large parts of southern Ukraine after shelling.
In the statement, the SBU states that it took “additional security measures” for Zelensky’s visit, but did not immediately arrest the woman “in order to obtain new information about her Russian ‘godparents’ and the tasks they assigned her.”
According to the SBU, he sought to obtain information on the location of Ukrainian electronic warfare systems and ammunition storage warehouses.
The woman was arrested red-handed when she tried to pass information to the Russian secret services and now faces 12 years in prison, security services said.
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