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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday denounced the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump after it emerged the suspect previously traveled to Ukraine to support the war against Russia. “I am glad to hear that @realDonaldTrump is safe and unharmed,” the president tweeted early Monday, a day after a gunman allegedly pointed an AK-47 at former Trump as he played golf in Florida. Ukraine came into focus because suspect Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, previously expressed support for the fight against the Russian invasion, taking part in demonstrations in Kyiv to support Ukrainians trapped in the city of Mariupol and...

Ukraine detained a Russian informant working to gather information on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s planned trip to Mykolaiv last week, part of an apparent assassination plot, the Secret Service of Ukraine announced Monday. The informant, a Ukrainian woman, is currently in custody and is being questioned. Ukrainian officials said they “apprehended the traitor ‘red-handed’ when she was trying to pass intelligence” to Russian officials. They added that they learned about the informant’s intentions in advance and took additional security measures ahead of Zelensky’s trip to the Mykolaiv region.