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‘Russian Escort’ Accused of Assassinating Ukrainian Defector
Police and security agents say the plot involved a mercenary and explosives stored in a rented warehouse.
- On Friday, Polish authorities confirmed they thwarted a Russian-backed plot to assassinate Ukrainian-American rapper Albert Vasilyev in Warsaw, with police and the Internal Security Agency intervening to stop the attack.
- Russia's Federal Security Service accused Vasilyev of overseeing logistics for smuggling 35 drones into the Moscow region, adding him to its list of individuals involved in alleged "extremist" and "terrorist" activities.
- Police arrested a 29-year-old suspect from the Donbas region of Ukraine on August 7, apprehending the individual near Warsaw's WoBoska Street while preparing the attack against Vasilyev.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared on Thursday that this attack marks the "first such situation in which someone on behalf of Russia decides to attack an American citizen in another NATO country," specifically on Polish territory.
- Tusk described the incident as part of a wider hybrid campaign Russia is waging against Western nations, following a June case where Georgian citizen killed Russian government critic Semyon Skrepetsky in BiaBa Podlaska.
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On 7 August, the Polish Internal Security Agency detained a Russian on charges of plotting an attack on a citizen...
·Moscow, Russian Federation (the)
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In Poland, a suspect in preparation for the assassination of Ukrainian rapper Albert Vasiliev (Kyivstoneer) is being detained, reporting to the Polish radio station RMF FM with reference to sources.
·Riga, Latvia
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The FSB had previously accused the rapper of allegedly being involved in the preparation of a drone attack by the TSO on a strategic enterprise in Pomoskovje.
·Kyiv, Ukraine
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Total News Sources22
Leaning Left5Leaning Right2Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution63% Left
Bias Distribution
- 63% of the sources lean Left
63% Left
L 63%
12%
R 25%
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