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\n Published on 03\/10\/2025 – 20:22 GMT+2
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Prosecutors in Poland are investigating an alleged Russia plot that involved smuggling food cans labelled as corn packed with explosives into the country, according to Polish media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An article published in Gazeta Wyborcza on Thursday cited sources at the Polish National Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the Internal Security Agency (ABW) confirming the development.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Ukrainian suspect linked to Russia\u2019s military intelligence agency (GRU), who has only been identified as W\u0142adys\u0142aw D, allegedly transported the cans to Poland after digging them up at a cemetery in neighbouring Lithuania.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The young man left them near the city of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a in central Poland, according to Gazeta Wyborcza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A military expert told the Polish paper that the quantities of explosives believed to have been involved could have caused severe damage to a car and life-threatening injuries to people nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Poland’s special services co-ordinator Tomasz Siemoniak said the GRU had planned sabotage operations in Poland, as well as in Lithuania and Germany using explosives hidden in the cans.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, GRU operatives were allegedly planning to attach the cans to drones as explosive payloads for attacks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators haven’t said what the motive for the planned attacks might be, but Poland’s staunch support for Ukraine during the full-scale invasion could be a possible reason.<\/p>\n
Total support to Kyiv from Warsaw since 2022 totals approximately \u20ac3.3 billion, in both military and humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n
And Poland is home to around 1 million refugees who fled the war, the majority of them women and children.<\/p>\n
Hybrid attacks<\/p>\n
The Polish National Prosecutor’s Office told TVP World that the investigation is part of a wider probe into Russian hybrid warfare operations in Europe.<\/p>\n
The discovery of the cans comes amid a recent spate of airspace violations in Europe, with Russia believed to be responsible.<\/p>\n
Munich Airport in Germany was forced to suspend operations on Thursday night after “several drone sightings” were reported, leading to the cancellation of 17 flights.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, airports in Denmark, Norway and Poland similarly suspended flights due to unidentified drone activity.<\/p>\n
Airspace violations were also reported in Estonia and Romania.<\/p>\n
Those incursions have fuelled a debate among European leaders over the\u00a0feasibility of a so-called drone wall to protect the eastern edge of the continent against drone incursions believed to be from Russia.<\/p>\n
Moscow has dismissed claims that it was responsible for any of the airspace violations, calling them “unfounded accusations.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 03\/10\/2025 – 20:22 GMT+2 \u2022Updated 20:43 ADVERTISEMENT Prosecutors in Poland are investigating an alleged Russia plot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[41232,92089,770,332,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-473176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-explosives","9":"tag-hybrid-war","10":"tag-poland","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}