Since Russia\u2019s full-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022, Poland has been on high alert for cases of foreign espionage and sabotage, and has arrested multiple people on those grounds.<\/p>\n
Last month, two Ukrainian nationals were\u00a0detained\u00a0on suspicion of spying for a foreign intelligence service. Other recent incidents include an alleged Belarusian refugee accused by authorities of being a Russian operative,\u00a0a\u00a0fire set\u00a0in a shopping mall near Warsaw and an alleged attempt to\u00a0sabotage a railway station in southern Poland\u00a0by leaving an unmarked railcar\u00a0on tracks used by passenger trains.<\/p>\n
“The adversary has begun preparations for war,” the Polish chief of the general staff, Gen. Wies\u0142aw Kuku\u0142a,\u00a0told\u00a0Polish Radio<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n “It is building a certain environment here that is intended to undermine public trust in the government and institutions such as the armed forces and the police. This is to create conditions conducive to potential aggression on Polish territory,\u201d Kuku\u0142a said.<\/p>\n In response, the Kremlin accused Poland on Tuesday of Russophobia. “In Poland, let’s say, everyone is trying to run ahead of the European locomotive in this regard. And Russophobia, of course, is flourishing there,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state television reporter, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n This article has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since Russia\u2019s full-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022, Poland has been on high alert for cases of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[853,64,934,363,364,455,9,935,126,368,936,127,715,444],"class_list":{"0":"post-1025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-belarus","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-espionage","11":"tag-intelligence","12":"tag-intelligence-services","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-poland","15":"tag-railways","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-security","18":"tag-spying","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}