- Six persons were held on suspicion of installing concealed cameras.
- According to RMF FM, the cell had devised sabotage plots.
- After the Ukraine crisis, Russia and the West’s decades-long spy war has escalated.
Two Polish government officials informed the sources that a number of foreign people had been arrested on suspicion of spying for Moscow.
RMF FM stated that Polish security agencies had dismantled a Russian spy network.
Six persons were held on suspicion of installing concealed cameras to film transport infrastructure used to transfer supplies to Ukraine, according to the report.
According to RMF FM, the cell had devised sabotage plots.
After the Ukraine crisis, Russia and the West’s decades-long spy war has escalated.
Poland is one of Ukraine’s greatest allies, and its security forces have arrested many people on suspicion of espionage for Russia since the invasion last February.
The organization, according to the radio station, has planted dozens of cameras alongside railway junctions and vital transportation routes in Poland’s Podkarpackie area, which borders Ukraine.
Military and humanitarian goods to Ukraine
These were discovered at a small regional airport that has been transformed into an international logistical hub for transferring military and humanitarian goods to Ukraine.
Military and cargo planes from the United States and Europe regularly fly into and out of the Rzeszow-Jasionka airport, where US troops can be seen beside their Humvees, to give supplies to waiting trucks on their way to the Ukrainian border.
Because the location is deemed so critical, Washington has placed American Patriot air defense systems to safeguard the airstrip.
On his trip to Kyiv, US Vice President Joe Biden landed at the airport.
According to RMF FM, security at key infrastructure locations has been increased.
On Thursday morning, Poland’s Interior Minister, Mariusz Kaminski, who is in charge of the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW), whose personnel allegedly made the arrests, is scheduled to talk to the media about the RMF FM report.
In the last year, several people have been arrested for spying. Prosecutors charged a Russian national who has lived in Poland for a long time with espionage for Russia between 2015 and 2022 last month.
The individual, who owned a business in Poland, is said to have been associated with historical reconstruction groups, where he met with Polish military members.
He was arrested in April of last year after an inquiry revealed that he reportedly collected information on the organizational structure of Polish military formations in the country’s northeast.
The ABW detained a Spanish national of Russian ancestry last year in Przemysl, south-eastern Poland, on suspicion of spying for Moscow. He was identified as an agent for Russia’s military intelligence service (GRU).
In March of last year, Tomasz L., a Polish employee of the Warsaw Registration Office, was arrested on suspicion of passing operationally valuable material to Russian intelligence agents.
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