News / Russian agents plan sabotage acts in Poland??? [74]

Amasing news provided by Washington Post about Russians recruiting agents in Poland to blow up trains delivering armament to Ukraine. Seems too crazy to believe. Those Russians!

But, it is also possible that PIS gov is trying to stir up the atmosphere before the coming elections and show they are so successful in protecting Poland from foreign threats.

Who knows?? That is why I put those question marks in the title.

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"The Washington Post": The Russians were planning an attack in Poland. They wanted to derail the train
Russian intelligence was planning a terrorist attack in Poland , The Washington Post reports. The spy network broken up by the ABW was supposed to observe the tracks and try to derail the train with arms deliveries to Ukraine. Moscow's spies were to be recruited through social media.

At the beginning of 2023, strange job offers appeared on the Polish Internet. They were mainly about putting up posters and pro-Russian stickers. Over time, the anonymous employer demanded more and more. He wanted agents to observe and photograph railway routes, seaports and other strategic objects. According to The Washington Post, in March the ringleaders demanded the derailment of a train carrying weapons for Ukraine (80 percent of deliveries to Kiev go through Poland).

According to the data provided to the American title by the ABW, the operation was based on the classic structure of cells that shared functions - including logistics, observation and task execution.

"Each cell had its leader, a trusted person of Russian intelligence," an ABW officer quoted by the Washington Post said. "Those at the lower levels were kept secret and didn't know each other unless it was necessary," the agency added.

As The Washington Post writes, initially the secret services wanted to observe the "railway" network to learn as much as possible about it. However, the ABW had to stop the operational game when it turned out that the action related to the derailment of the train was too advanced. The services broke up the network and arrested its members. An ABW officer said that at least two recruits had volunteered to carry out the attack and that the place and time had already been agreed.

The American newspaper quoted unnamed senior Polish officials as saying that "the conspiracy has already crossed a dangerous line."

- This is the first sign that the Russians are trying to organize sabotage and even terrorist attacks in Poland - said Stanisław Żaryn, Government Plenipotentiary for the Security of the Information Space of the Republic of Poland, in an interview with "The Washington Post".

As reported by The Washington Post, recruits were given tasks related to the organization of arson and terrorist attacks. The interlocutors of the newspaper from the ABW circle, however, do not specify what exactly it was supposed to be about.

Russian intelligence reaches out to young people who can travel unnoticed. The youngest recruited was 16 years old. Russian spies received relatively small rates for their actions - from a few to a dozen or so dollars. The derailment of the train was "valued" at several hundred dollars. All transactions were carried out in cryptocurrencies to cover the tracks.

On Monday, the Internal Security Agency identified and detained two Russians who had posted propaganda materials of the Wagner Group in Krakow and Warsaw. The detainees Alexei T. and Andriej G. posted a total of about 300 leaflets of this type.