Zelensky Assassination Plot Foiled: What to Know
Ukraine War,Volodymyr Zelensky,Russia,Poland,Eastern Europe,Assassination
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the target of an assassination plot to be carried out by a Polish pensioner who had first been recruited by the Soviet Union decades ago, the head of the country's internal security agency said.
Lieutenant General Vasyl Malyuk, head of Ukraine's SBU, the main internal security agency of the Ukrainian government, detailed the alleged plot in a closed briefing with Ukrainian media. The suspect had now been indicted in Poland.
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