Woman arrested in plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine says

A Ukrainian woman has been detained by Ukraine’s Security Service in connection with an apparent plot to attack President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the service said on Monday.

The woman, who is from Mykolaiv but was not publicly named, was being questioned, officials said. She had been part of a plot aimed at assassinating Zelenskyy during his visit last week to Mykolaiv, a southeastern city near the front, officials said.

Law enforcement officials said she had been caught “red-handed” as she handed info to the Russians.

She allegedly was passing information on to Russian forces about Zelenskyy’s location, including specific a full itinerary for the president’s visit to the Mykolaiv region. The Russians would have then ordered an airstrike to assassinate him, Ukrainian officials alleged.

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