Reasons to believe Russia behind cyberattack on Polish power system, PM says


Newly appointed Polish Minister of Energy, Milosz Motyka, attends a government reshuffle announcement in Warsaw, Poland, July 23, 2025. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki

WARSAW, Jan 15 (Reuters) - ‌There are strong reasons to ‌believe a group connected to Russian ‌secret services was behind a December cyberattack on Poland's energy infrastructure, Polish Prime Minister Donald ‍Tusk said on Thursday.

Poland's ‍power system faced ‌its largest cyberattack in years in the last ‍week ​of December, its energy minister Milosz Motyka said on ⁠Tuesday.

Tusk added that because Poland's defence ‌systems worked well the attack did not threaten ⁠critical infrastructure ‍and had practically no negative consequences.

"There are many reasons to believe... that ‍they were prepared by groups ‌directly linked to the Russian services, I don't want to speculate, but I don't think we have any doubts about the sources of inspiration," Tusk told a press conference.

"I want to say ‌that Poland defended itself against attempts at destabilization, and its infrastructure was never threatened ​for a moment."

(Reporting by Barbara Erling, Pawel Florkiewicz and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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