The Polish Security Agency (ABW) reported this Thursday of an operation towards an alleged spy network who labored from several Polish cities for Russia.
The spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Space Affairs, Jacek Dobrzynski, confirmed on the social network russian espionage towards States and establishments of the European Union”.
According to Dobrzynski, the investigation that triggered this operation was potential because of the cooperation offered by the intelligence providers of several European countries, in specific the Czech Republic.
There a network of pro-russian propaganda “who was attempting to develop an affect operation (…) with severe influence on the safety of the Czech Republic and the European Union,” as reported by Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala on his X account.
We have uncovered a pro-Russian network that was creating an operation to unfold Russian affect and undermine safety throughout Europe. Therefore we added two people and one authorized entity to the sanctions record. Domestic authorities subsequently seized their belongings.
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— Petr Fiala (@P_Fiala) March 28, 2024
As a part of their investigation, the Polish authorities searched several addresses in Warsaw and Tychy (south), and carried out several interrogations.
A doc launched by the ABW explains that the target of the Russian network was “to realize the Kremlin’s overseas coverage aims, in specific weaken Poland’s place on the worldwide scene, discredit Ukraine and the picture of the establishments of the European Union”.
To obtain its functions, the network used the web portal voice-of-europe.euwhich publishes articles, statements, feedback and interviews on the Ukrainian battle and European establishments with a pronounced pro-Russian bias.
Besides, a polish citizen who was arrested in January on expenses of spying for the Kremlin was sentenced to 6 years of jail.
“The man, infiltrated amongst Polish and European parliamentarians, carried out duties commissioned and financed by collaborators of the Russian intelligence providers,” reads the assertion from the Polish Security Agency.
