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Poland’s Warning: Alleged Russian Plot to Kill US Citizen on NATO Soil Exposes New Vulnerability

Poland’s prime minister says his security services foiled a Russian plan to assassinate a Ukrainian‑American in Warsaw, calling it the first attempt to kill a US citizen on NATO territory. If confirmed, the case would push Kremlin covert operations into far more dangerous legal and political ground, forcing Washington and its allies to rethink how they protect their own citizens inside the alliance.

An alleged Russian plot to murder a US citizen in the heart of Warsaw has pushed the long‑running shadow war between Moscow and the West into a more dangerous category: attacks that directly target Americans on NATO soil. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on 13 August that Polish authorities had arrested an operative suspected of preparing the assassination of a Ukrainian‑American citizen in the capital. Tusk described the case as the first known Russian attempt to kill a US national inside the territory of the alliance, casting it as a deliberate crossing of a line that NATO governments have treated as inviolable since the Cold War. Polish officials have…

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