Ukraine’s internal security agency foiled an alleged assassination plot against President Volodymyr Zelenskyy while he was traveling in Poland, Newsweek reported.

Lt. Gen. Vasyl Malyuk, who heads the Ukrainian internal security agency SBU, held a closed-door meeting with members of his country’s media on Monday to discuss the details of an alleged plot to kill Zelenskyy at Poland’s Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport by a Polish military pensioner who was recruited by the Soviet Union decades ago.

“The task was to eliminate President Zelenskyy at Rzeszow Airport physically. Several options were considered — one involving an FPV drone, another a sniper system,” Malyuk said.

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