Poland detains eight suspected of preparing for acts of sabotage


Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk gestures during a press conference with Lithuania's new Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish security services have detained eight people suspected of preparing to carry out acts of sabotage in various regions, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.

Officials have said Poland has been targeted with tactics such as arson and cyberattacks in a "hybrid war" waged by Russia to destabilise nations supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, which has denied such accusations.

"ABW (the internal security agency), in cooperation with other services, detained eight people in various parts of the country in recent days, suspected of preparing acts of sabotage," Tusk wrote on X.

"Further operational activities are continuing," he added, but gave no details.

On X, the minister responsible for special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, said, "The matters ... concern reconnaissance of military facilities and critical infrastructure elements, the preparation of means to carry out acts of sabotage, and the direct execution of attacks."

(Reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz and Karol Badohal; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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