Polish authorities have detained 32 people suspected of collaborating with Russian intelligence services to organise acts of sabotage in the country. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said this on Tuesday, Polish PAP news agency reported.
According to Tusk, the criminal group included citizens of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Colombia. According to Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW), the offences were committed or prepared by them at the behest of Russian intelligence officers. One of the detainees has already been convicted, while the others are in custody awaiting trial.
One member of the group, a 27-year-old Colombian national, was charged with setting fire to two construction warehouses in May 2024. According to ABW, he received instructions from a person linked to the Russian security services, including instructions on how to make and use Molotov cocktails. In Poland, if convicted, he faces between 10 years in prison and life imprisonment. In the Czech Republic, the man had already been sentenced to eight years in prison in June 2025 for setting fire to a bus depot in Prague and an attempted arson attack on a shopping centre.
Other details regarding the identities of the suspects and the nature of the sabotage committed or prepared have not been released at this time.