Poland says it arrested Russian hired to kill Ukrainian-American citizen

WARSAW, Aug 13 (Reuters) - ‌Poland has ​arrested ​a Russian man who was hired by Moscow to kill a Ukrainian-American citizen in ‌Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on ⁠Thursday.

The Russian was detained on August 7 and had been ‌recruited to kill a ‌man who was "inconvenient to the Putin regime", Tusk told journalists.

The Russian embassy in Warsaw did not immediately ​respond to an emailed request for comment. Moscow has regularly dismissed accusations by European powers ⁠of attacks, saying the West is stoking anti-Russian paranoia.

"Thanks to the truly ​brilliant action of our services ... we detained a Russian citizen recruited by Russian intelligence ​services," Tusk said.

The Russian had been ‌hired to kill a man who had both Ukrainian and U.S. passports, Tusk ⁠said, without giving any more information on his identity.

"At the last minute, thanks to the action of the ⁠Internal Security Agency and the police, we managed to prevent this ​execution, this attack," Tusk added.

In June, a Russian artist critical of President Vladimir Putin was shot and killed in the ‌eastern Polish town of Biala Podlaska, prosecutors said.

Poland says its role as a ‌hub for military and other supplies to neighbouring ⁠Ukraine has made it ‌a target for ​Russian espionage and attacks.

(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Anna Koper and Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Andrew ‌Heavens)

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