Woman arrested over alleged plan to kill Ukrainian president during visit to Mykolaiv region
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Ukraine’s security service claims to have foiled a plot to assassinate the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, after the arrest of a woman suspected of gathering intelligence about his movements.
The unnamed woman was said by the security service of Ukraine, known as the SBU, to be gathering information about Zelenskiy’s visit to the southern Mykolaiv region, on which it was said Russia was planning to unleash a major air assault.