Poland arrests Ukrainian suspected in assassination attempt on defense industry figure
Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has detained a Ukrainian citizen suspected of acting on behalf of Russian special services in an attempted assassination of a representative of Ukraine’s defense industry, RMF24 reports.
The 63-year-old man was arrested in Warsaw on Aug. 5, but Polish authorities disclosed the case on Aug. 20.
According to investigators, the suspect, identified as Serhii P., planted an improvised explosive device under a car used by the intended target in Irpin, Kyiv Oblast.
The device was designed to be detonated remotely using a mobile phone, but failed because the mechanism malfunctioned, ABW said.
Following the failed assassination attempt, the suspect fled to Poland, where he was later detained in Warsaw.
Polish authorities charged him with attempted murder using explosives that he possessed without authorization. A court ordered him held in pretrial detention for three months.
The case comes less than two weeks after Polish authorities detained a Russian citizen in Warsaw on Aug. 7 who, according to Polish security services, had been tasked with killing a dual U.S.-Ukrainian citizen described as an opponent of Vladimir Putin’s regime.