Assassination attempt on US citizen foiled in Warsaw
A Russian citizen suspected of preparing to kill a Ukrainian and American citizen has been arrested in Poland. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the potential crime was foiled "at the last moment."
**A plot to assassinate a US citizen in Warsaw was foiled: a Russian citizen was arrested**
The Polish government announced the arrest of a Russian citizen suspected of preparing an assassination attempt on a Ukrainian and US citizen on behalf of Russian special services. This was announced on August 13 by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Rzeczpospolita reports. According to him, the suspect was arrested on August 7.
Tusk said that the plan to assassinate a person "inconvenient" for Vladimir Putin's regime was foiled "at the last moment."
RMF FM radio station reported, citing unofficial sources, that the target of the assassination was a contractor for the arms industry supplying products to Ukraine. The suspect in the attack is said to be a 29-year-old Russian citizen born in Donbass.
The murder was planned to be carried out in Warsaw. According to the coordinator of the Polish special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, the operation to capture the suspect was carried out in cooperation with the US side.
Donald Tusk described this as the first case in which a Russian person was suspected of planning the assassination of a US citizen on the territory of a NATO member state.
The Polish prime minister stressed the need to take into account the possibility that the Russian government might try to eliminate individuals it considers "inconvenient" for it, and said that Warsaw would take active measures against such threats.
**Previous incident: Murder of a Russian artist**
Before this incident, on June 15, Russian artist-actionist Semyon Skrepetsky was shot dead in the city of Biała Podlaska, near the Polish border with Belarus. His real name was Robert Kuzovkov.
According to The Insider, the artist reported that he was being threatened by "Russian patriots" about an hour before his murder.
Three people were initially detained in the case. According to media reports, at least two of them were Belarusian citizens. Later, the investigation did not confirm their involvement in the crime, and they were released after questioning.
On June 18, Donald Tusk announced the detention of another person suspected of involvement in the murder of Skrepetsky. A Georgian passport was reportedly found on him.
Skrepetsky moved from Russia to Poland in 2021. He was known for his cartoons and political actions directed against the Russian government.