A female informant for Russia has been detained on suspicion of gathering information for assassination plans against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
The SBU states on its website that it has detained a Russian informant who “prepared a Russian airstrike in the Mykolaiv region during the visit of the President of Ukraine.”
Assassination plans against the President of Ukraine
The woman is said to have run errands for Russia by mapping and providing information about the presidential visit at the end of July.
According to the SBU, the woman “tried to determine the time and had a list of places for the head of state’s approximate route in the territory of the region.”
Russian informant is imprisoned
However, the security service in Ukraine had received information about the suspected woman’s activities and was therefore able to take security measures.
The SBU writes on the website that they “caught the traitor in the act”.
When they reviewed the information the informant came across and her communications, the SBU was able to determine that she had been tasked with identifying locations of electronic warfare systems and stockpiles of ammunition from the Ukrainian military.
Resident in Ukraine
According to the investigation, the woman lived in Ochakov, in southern Ukraine.
She is a former saleswoman in a military store for one of the region’s military units.
The woman risks up to 12 years in prison.