A girl has been arrested in Ukraine for allegedly plotting the homicide of Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) detained the unnamed lady and commenced questioning her about her alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate the Ukrainian president throughout his go to to the port metropolis of Mykolaiv final month.
The lady was a Russian informant gathering intelligence about Mr Zelensky’s deliberate go to, SBU officers stated.
She is accused of looking for out when and the place the president was touring and allegedly filming the places of Ukrainian amenities, together with munitions depots and digital warfare techniques.
The lady was caught red-handed by authorities attempting to cross the collected info to Russia, the SBU claimed. If convicted, she may resist 12 years in jail.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) detained the unnamed lady and commenced questioning her about her involvement in a plot to kill Zelensky throughout his go to (pictured) to the port metropolis of Mykolaiv final month.
Zelensky rewards Ukrainian servicemen as he visits a army hospital close to Mykolaiv
The suspect lived within the Ukrainian metropolis of Ochakiv, a small city within the southern area of Mykolaiv. She is alleged to have been a former saleswoman in a retailer for one of many area’s army items.
The SBU claims it gathered the data as a part of a plot to launch an airstrike on Mykolaiv and kill Zelensky.
When detectives discovered of the lady’s plans, “additional security measures” had been taken to guard Zelensky, officers stated.
“The Ukrainian security service continued to document the criminal actions of the enemy accomplice to obtain new data on its Russian ‘curators’ and the tasks received,” they stated in a press release on Monday.
Zelensky has been a chief goal for the Kremlin since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, when he refused to go away Kiev as Moscow’s troops approached.
It got here when Russian shelling hit a nine-story residential constructing within the metropolis of Kherson, killing one individual and injuring 4 others.
Regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin stated Kherson endured a “tough night” because the Russians “covered the central part of the city with fire.”
In the northeastern province of Kharkiv, a 57-year-old lady was killed and 4 folks injured in Russian shelling.
Zelensky has been a chief goal for the Kremlin since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, when he refused to go away Kiev as Moscow’s troops approached.
Ukrainian troopers hearth the M777 artillery at their artillery place
It comes after Ukraine broken two key bridges resulting in Russian-occupied Crimea with ‘Storm Shadow missiles supplied by the UK’.
The Chonhar Bridge connecting mainland Ukraine to Crimea was broken and a small bridge throughout the Tonky Strait was additionally shelled.
Continued assaults by Zelensky’s forces are making it more and more troublesome for Putin’s invading military to get on and off the peninsula that Russia captured from Ukraine in 2014.
Russia can also be dealing with an rebellion by its personal nationals – with anti-Putin militias claiming to have blown up a gasoline and ammunition depot in occupied Ukraine.
The Legion of Freedom of Russia – which was shaped within the spring of 2022 to combat for Ukraine – claimed a mortar assault on the village of Zaitseve within the Donetsk area.
Dramatic drone footage captured the second the depot reworked right into a raging inferno as enormous plumes of smoke rose into the sky.
The assault got here within the wake of Russia launching three waves of strikes on Sunday morning in opposition to a Ukrainian air base believed to deal with long-range Storm Shadow missiles provided by the British and French.
The Freedom Legion of Russia has introduced the destruction of an ammunition depot in Zaitsevo, Donetsk area
A triple assault noticed explosions close to the Starokonstantinov air base in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi area, in line with studies.
The extent of the injury was not clear, however Sergei Gamaly, the top of Ukraine’s regional army administration, stated there had been a “series of explosions” within the space.
Russia had despatched seven nuclear-capable Tu-95 strategic bombers to launch strikes with typical Kh-101 missiles, studies stated.
Russian sources stated the Starokonstantinov base was utilized by Ukrainian Su-24 fighter jets to fireplace Storm Shadows and SCALP-EGs within the French model at occupied territories.
The devastating strike got here as grain silos had been focused once more in a single day in Kharkiv, and through a nationwide celebration of the Ukrainian Air Force, with Zelensky taking time to reward his “heroes of the air” on social media.