is softer here than it is in some other states and they can chip away at it. lester? dasha burns, thank you. tonight in ukraine officials say a woman has been arrested in a plot to assassinate president zelenskyy. and there are alarming new developments involving joint russian and chinese patrols off the u.s. coast. here s richard engel with that. reporter: ukrainian intelligence says this unidentified woman is a russian spy captured while carrying out a plot to assassinate president zelenskyy during this trip to mykolaiv last month. she was allegedly tracking his movements so he could be targeted with a russian airstrike. the kremlin so far not commenting on the accusations. with its counteroffensive stalled, ukraine is pushing the war beyond its borders. there was a sea drone attack last week near a russian port. but russian president vladimir putin and his ally china s president xi are projecting their power abroad too, sending an
Moscow promised retaliation Saturday after Ukrainian drones hit a Russian tanker in the Black Sea near Crimea late Friday, the second sea attack involving drones in one day. Ukraine struck a major Russian port earlier on Friday. Moscow strongly condemned what it sees as a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” on a civilian vessel in the Kerch Strait, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.