Camouflaged as a shopkeeper and Putin informant: this was the plan of the woman caught 'red-handed' leaking information to kill Zelenski

Ukraine has arrested a “Russian informant” for her alleged collaboration in carrying out an attack on President Volodimir Zelensky.. Apparently, Moscow had plans to launch an air strike on the Mykolaiv region taking advantage of the visit of the Ukrainian president.

According to what the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has explained, the woman was surprised when she was trying to convey Zelensky's travel plans to the Kremlin.. She was detained the night before the president was to visit this area of southern Ukraine.

In a statement, the SBU says it arrested an “informant for the Russian secret services who was collecting information about the president's planned visit to the Mykolaiv region” near the front line.. “We caught the traitor red-handed when she was trying to pass intelligence information to the invaders,” they say.

We caught the traitor 'red-handed' when she was trying to pass intelligence information to the invaders,” says the SBU.

It was going to be, official kyiv sources comment, a “massive air raid”. They believe that Russia intended to launch a precision missile with the aim of killing Zelensky.

Shop worker at a military base

According to a Ukrainian government official, quoted by The Washington Post, the woman was arrested on August 1.. He worked in the shop of a military base and “tried to find the time and the list of places included in the provisional itinerary of the head of state in the region,” the security service said.

The woman was seeking information on the location of ammunition depots, electronic warfare systems, and other Ukrainian military facilities.. kyiv assures that for this the detainee drove through the area, taking photographs and videos of Ukrainian military installations.

The SBU did not immediately arrest her “to obtain new information about her Russian 'sponsors' and the tasks they assigned her.”. However, they say, they took “additional security measures.”

If convicted of espionage, she faces up to 12 years in prison.

Ukraine has not revealed the identity of the woman.. Just that he lived in the fishing town of Ochakiv, near the place Zelensky was scheduled to visit in July.. No media has been able to verify the report of the Security Service of Ukraine.

A blurry photo of the detainee (the one above) has been disseminated, as well as telephone messages and handwritten notes on military activities. If convicted of espionage, she faces up to 12 years in prison.

Twelve assassination attempts

Zelenski was informed, as he told this Monday on Telegram. Security services say they knew about the plans against the president before the visit. The Ukrainian leader visited the Mykolaiv region in June after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, which caused flooding in large parts of the south of the country.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Zelensky has survived at least 12 assassination attempts.. Infiltrators, Chechen mercenaries and it is believed that even the Wagner paramilitary group have been implicated in these plots, according to the Daily Mail.

Some of these assassination plans were thwarted by Western intelligence services.. At the start of the war, the Ukrainian president declined a US invitation to be removed from Ukraine for his own safety, saying: “I need ammunition, not to be removed.”