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Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)A group of foreign citizens have been arrested under suspicion of spying on Russia, two Polish government officials told the BBC. Radio station RMF FM reported that Polish security services had destroyed a spy network working for Russia. Six people were arrested on suspicion that they had installed secret cameras for him [...]
Radio station RMF FM reported that Polish security services had destroyed a spy network working for Russia.
Six people were arrested on suspicion that they had installed secret cameras to film the transport infrastructure used for sending aid to Ukraine, he reported.
RMF FM said the cell had prepared sabotage plans.
The decades-old spying conflict between Russia and the West has intensified since the war in Ukraine.
Poland is one of Ukraine's strongest allies and its security forces have arrested several persons suspected of spying on Russia since the invasion last February.
According to the radio station, the group had installed dozens of cameras near railway intersections and important transportation routes to Poland's Podcarpackie province, which borders Ukraine.
Some of them were found near a small regional airport that has become an international logistics centre that sends military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Military aircraft and goods from the US and from all over Europe regularly fly in and out of Rzeszow Airport - Yassionka, where American troops can be seen near their humvees, to provide supplies for the waiting trucks that make the 100 km (62 km) trip to Ukraine. The border.
The country is considered so sensitive that Washington has established American Patriot air defence systems to protect the airport.
US President Joe Biden flew to the airport on his way to his last visit to Kiev.
Security in critical infrastructure sites reportedly has increased, the FM RM said.
Poland's Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski, who is responsible for the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) and whose officers are said to have carried out the arrests, will speak to the media about the FM RM report Thursday morning.
Some people were arrested for spying last year. Last month, prosecutors charged a Russian national, who is a long-term resident in Poland, with spying on Russia between 2015 and 2022.
The man, who ran a business in Poland, was allegedly involved in historic reconstruction groups, where he had contacts with Polish military personnel.
He was arrested in April last year following an investigation that revealed he had allegedly collected information on the organisational structure of Polish military units in the country's north-East.
A Spanish citizen of Russian origin, who was identified as an agent of Russia's military intelligence agency (GRU), was arrested in Przemiesl, southeastern Poland, from ABW last year on suspicion of spying on Moscow.
In March last year, a Polish employee of the Warsaw Record Office, identified as Tomasz L., was arrested on suspicion of transferring valuable operational data to Russian intelligence services.
