Russia regularly recruits Ukrainians in Poland to carry out espionage and sabotage.
Russia regularly recruits Ukrainians in Poland to carry out espionage and sabotage.
They were part of a group tasked with carrying out sabotage and terrorism.
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One of the suspects is accused of sending packages containing explosives to Ukraine, with the intention of detonating them during transport.
Volodymyr Zhuravlov was giving his first interview shortly after a Polish court rejected his extradition to Germany.
An analysis is underway to establish whether it was a military or smuggling drone, or an “act of sabotage”.
The 27-year-old is accused of filming, photographing and gathering information on a warehouse in Lublin province.
The group, made up of three Poles and three Belarusians, is accused of setting fire to two buildings.
Russia has dismissed the accusations against it as “baseless” and motivated by Polish “Russophobia”.
Some of the perpetrators are already in custody, says Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Prosecutors in Lithuania have indicted a Ukrainian accused of carrying out arson on behalf of Russia.
The Belarusian is accused of undertaking a terrorist act on behalf of foreign intelligence.
He was accused of planning arson attacks on various buildings in the city of Wrocław.
“Russia is conducting a form of hybrid warfare against Poland,” says the Polish foreign ministry.
The charges are believed to relate to the fire that this month destroyed Warsaw’s largest shopping centre.