The Polish Internal Security Agency, in cooperation with other services in various parts of Poland, has arrested eight people in recent days on suspicion of planning sabotage, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on social media this morning.
The Minister Coordinating the Secret Services of Poland, Tomasz Semonjak, later specified that they were arrested for collecting information on military and key civilian infrastructure elements, collecting funds for sabotage and their planning.
Poland accuses Russia of stepping up hybrid attacks and sabotage and diversions against Poland and other countries on NATO's eastern flank since the aggression against Ukraine.
As early as 2024, the Polish Internal Security Agency warned in its report that sabotage was intensifying across the European Union, such as arson in Poland and an attempt in the Czech Republic.
This summer, Polish Prime Minister Tusk said that by July of this year, 32 people in Poland alone had been arrested and suspected of such cooperation with Russian intelligence services, which hire them to spy and carry out sabotage, the most recent being citizens of Latin American countries that do not arouse suspicion at first glance.
The American Institute for the Study of War has warned that Russian and Belarusian special services are preparing a new sabotage operation and attacks on critical infrastructure in Poland and drone incursions in order to publicly blame Ukraine for this, Polish media reported in early October.
Russia denies these accusations and announced at the end of September that Ukraine was allegedly preparing such a fake diversionary operation in Poland or the Baltic countries so that it could blame Russia and Belarus and drag NATO into the war in Ukraine.
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