Employees of the Internal Security Agency have arrested six people suspected of spying on behalf of Russia, according to Polish radio RMF FM. Information on the detention of journalists from the Russian service of the BBC is also confirmed Polish government officials.
According to the radio station, all of the detainees were “foreigners from the eastern border”. According to investigators, they worked for Russian special services.
According to RMF FM, the suspects were arrested after the discovery of hidden cameras at important railway junctions – they recorded the movement of trains and transmitted data on the Internet, according to the Russian service of the BBC.
According to journalists, there is talk of dozens of such cameras. Mostly they were placed on sections of railway tracks in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, including in the area of Rzeszow-Jasionka airport, which is actively used for the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine , writes RMF FM.
In turn, the BBC Russian Service explains that this airport is considered so important that the US military has deployed Patriot air defense installations to protect it. It was also at this airport that US President Joe Biden flew, which then went with visit to Kyiv.
At the same time, the former deputy head of the Polish Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW), Colonel Maciej Matysiak, said that the Russian special services used the cameras mainly to collect information on the supply of weapons to the ‘Ukraine. However, according to the military, the Russians could also use this data to organize sabotage.
This information can be used to take countermeasures, including sabotage and sabotage. The Russians have done it, are doing it and will do it. We have all seen, for example, the production of ammunition in the Czech Republic, which exploded.
At the end of December 2022, the head of the Federal Intelligence and Counterintelligence Service of Germany, Bruno Kahl declared about the exposure of a Russian spy in the ranks of the special services themselves. At the end of January became known about the arrest of his companion.
In the second half of January, the Stockholm District Court recognized two Swedish citizens guilty of spying for Russia, sentencing one of them to life imprisonment.