On August 27, law enforcement officers in Warsaw detained three Russian citizens of Chechen origin. During a search of their apartment, three firearms and ammunition were found.
This was reported on social media platform X by Marcin Kierwiński, Poland’s Minister of the Interior and Administration.
“The three detained Russians of Chechen origin and the illegal firearms and ammunition found in an apartment in Warsaw’s Wola district are the result of an effective operation by police officers and the Internal Security Agency (ABW),” Kierwiński wrote.
According to the Warsaw Police, the operation was carried out by officers from the capital’s Department for Combating Criminal Terrorism and Homicides in cooperation with ABW personnel.
Three detained Russians of Chechen origin, illegal firearms along with ammunition in an apartment in Warsaw’s Wola district—the result of a smoothly executed operation by officers from @Policja_KSP and @ABW_GOV_PL pic.twitter.com/uGJHov4FFN
— Marcin Kierwiński (@MKierwinski) August 27, 2026
According to police, authorities received information about the possible activities of an organized criminal group. Based on reports of the possible presence of weapons, law enforcement officers carried out the arrests using special security measures. In an apartment in Warsaw’s Wola district, they found three men aged 21, 25, and 42. During a search of the residence, law enforcement officers found three firearms and ammunition. The serial numbers had been erased from two of the firearms.
The police charged the 42-year-old detainee with the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition without the proper permit. At the request of the prosecutor’s office, the court ordered him to be held in pretrial detention for three months. For this offense, he faces a sentence of six months to eight years in prison. Deportation proceedings have been initiated against the 25-year-old Russian citizen from Poland. Meanwhile, the 21-year-old suspect was released after being questioned as a witness.
Polish police are continuing their investigation, including an examination of the seized weapons and ammunition. Law enforcement officials will also investigate the circumstances of their origin and any possible connection to other crimes.
Police emphasized that the operation was the result of cooperation between the Warsaw Police and the ABW Anti-Terrorism Center.
Earlier in Poland, a man attacked a Belarusian taxi driver because of his Eastern European accent.
As a reminder, in Radom, Poland, eight men brutally beat three 20-year-old Ukrainians following an argument about their origins and the Volhynia tragedy. One of the attackers, a 34-year-old resident of Lublin, stated that he wanted to “teach them a lesson about Volhynia” and has already been charged.
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