{"id":17368,"date":"2026-07-16T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/17368\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:11:07","slug":"poland-indicts-teen-in-suspected-russian-sabotage-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/17368\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland indicts teen in suspected Russian sabotage case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Poland indicts teen in suspected Russian sabotage case\" title=\"Poland indicts teen in suspected Russian sabotage case\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0906-bandera-marynarki-wojennej-rp-orp-torun-1784231953.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Mateusz War \/ Wikimedia.org<\/p>\n<p> Polish prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old Ukrainian citizen with carrying out acts of sabotage allegedly on behalf of Russian intelligence services in an attempt to fuel ethnic tensions. <\/p>\n<p>According to a statement\u00a0by Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency, the teenager, named only as Illia K. in line with Polish privacy laws, was indicted on Tuesday on suspicion of \u201cconducting diversionary and sabotage activities on behalf of Russian special services,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-arrests-teenager-accused-sabotage-for-russia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, his actions were intended to fuel ethnic tensions between <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/polish-police-detain-armed-man-outside-presidential-palace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poland<\/a> and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, investigators uncovered the operating methods of Russian intelligence services, which sought to advance their own interests by instigating conflict between the Polish and Ukrainian peoples,\u201d the agency said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Jacek Dobrzy\u0144ski, spokesperson for Poland\u2019s minister for special services, said Thursday: \u201cThe young Ukrainian, acting on behalf of Russian services, placed inscriptions on buildings and memorial sites glorifying the UPA [now defunct Ukrainian Insurgent Army] and [late Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan] Bandera. In doing so he desecrated places of particular importance to Poles \u2026 including the Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Volhynia Massacre Memorial,\u201d Dobrzy\u0144ski\u00a0wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed tens of thousands of Poles during World War II in an ethnic cleansing campaign in what is now western Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Although Poland and Ukraine remain close allies against Russia, historical disputes continue to strain relations. Tensions flared in May after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named a Ukrainian military unit \u201cHeroes of the UPA,\u201d\u00a0drawing outrage from Polish officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Internal Security Agency, Illia K.is also accused of planning a drone sabotage attack. If convicted he could face 10 years to life in prison,\u00a0according to Polish media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Mateusz War \/ Wikimedia.org Polish prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old Ukrainian citizen with carrying out acts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11405,9,11404,126,4423,11403],"class_list":["post-17368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-charged","tag-poland","tag-prosecutors","tag-russia","tag-sabotage","tag-suspected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368","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=17368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}