Symbolic imagePoland says it foiled plot to kill Ukrainian American in Warsaw
Poland detained a Russian recruited by Moscow's intelligence services over a plot to kill a man with Ukrainian and US passports, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. He called it the first Russian-ordered attack on a US citizen in a NATO state.
Polish officers arrested the suspect on 7 August, and the Warsaw police said he will be held for three months; no names have been released. Tomasz Siemoniak, the minister overseeing Poland's intelligence services, said the operation was run with US services and the target was a US citizen of Ukrainian origin. Tusk said the Internal Security Agency and the police prevented the killing “at the last minute”. The Russian foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment; the US State Department said it was aware of the reports.
Allied jets down a drone over Latvia
Latvia's armed forces said on Friday that allied fighter jets shot down an unmanned aircraft that had entered the country's airspace, TASS reported. An air raid alert had run about 30 minutes in four eastern municipalities.
Where NATO's red line runs
A guest essay in FAZ by the war-law scholar Klemens Fischer argues each drone incident on its own stays below the threshold international law sets for an armed attack, even as the Leipzig case pushes the question into public debate.
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TASS relayed the Latvian army's account without naming an origin for the drone and did not report the Warsaw case; the independent Russian outlet Meduza did.