Russian national arrested in Poland over alleged plot to execute US citizen

Polish authorities have arrested a Russian national suspected of plotting an execution in Warsaw, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced. The suspect was apprehended last Friday, August 7th.

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He was inconvenient for the Putin regime, and at the last moment... we managed to prevent this execution.

"He was inconvenient for the Putin regime, and at the last moment... we managed to prevent this execution," Tusk told reporters. He added that this is the first known case of an individual acting on Russian orders to attack a U.S. citizen on NATO territory.

Polish intelligence services (ABW) and police, in cooperation with U.S. security agencies, carried out the arrest. Tusk suggested that the Putin regime will likely continue attempts to eliminate individuals deemed inconvenient, warning that Warsaw may face similar pressure in the future.

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This is the first such case where someone, acting on Russian orders, decided to carry out an attack against a U.S. citizen on the territory of another NATO country.

Poland, a NATO and EU member on the alliance's eastern flank, has repeatedly accused Russia of sabotage since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In June, Russian-born cartoonist and Putin critic Semyon Skrepetsky, whose real name was Robert Kuzovkov, was shot dead in eastern Poland. Tusk described that incident as a "political assassination."

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We have to accept the assumption that the Putin regime will try to eliminate people who, for various reasons, are inconvenient.