The Ukrainian security services (SBU) assured this Monday that they detained a woman accused of having helped Russia to prepare an attack on the president Volodymyr Zelensky on a visit to the south of Ukraine.
He ubs He said in a statement that he had arrested an “informant for the Russian secret services who was collecting information about the president’s planned visit to the region of Mykolaiv», near the front line, in view of a «massive air strike».
The woman worked in the shop 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.
He ubs released a blurry photo of this woman, as well as phone messages and handwritten notes about military activities.
Zelensky stressed on Monday in Telegram that the SBU had informed him of this attempted attack and of the “fight against traitors” in Ukraine.
The leader visited the region of Mykolaiv in June after the destruction of the dam in Kakhovkawhich caused flooding in large parts of southern Ukraine after some bombing.
In the statement, the ubs specifies that he took “additional security measures” for the visit of Zelenskybut that he did not immediately arrest the woman “to obtain new information about her Russian ‘sponsors’ and the tasks they assigned her.”
According to him ubssought 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 is now facing 12 years in prisonspecified the security services.
