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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained two people suspected of working for Polish intelligence and gathering information on military facilities in the Kaliningrad region in western Russia.
Interfax reported the development on November 11, citing the FSB, according to AnewZ. The Russian security service also said it had issued warnings to seven Polish and three Russian citizens suspected of having ties to Polish special services.
Poland rejected Russia’s statements but did not comment on the allegations in detail. Jacek Dobrzyński, a spokesman for the minister responsible for the special services, said he would not comment on claims made by Russian intelligence.
“On National Independence Day, I consider these to be yet another act of provocation and disinformation,” Dobrzyński wrote on the social network X. He also urged people not to repeat hostile narratives or join Russian propaganda.
Poland marks National Independence Day on November 11.
Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) said earlier, on November 5, that it had detained six people. They included five Polish citizens and a 37-year-old Russian woman.
They are suspected of working for Russian intelligence by illegally transporting military goods subject to restrictions to Russia, including shell casings and ammunition. Four people have been charged and are being held in pretrial detention for three months.
Kaliningrad has strategic importance
Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea coast, between Poland and Lithuania. Its strategic location has made the region a sensitive issue in relations between Moscow, the European Union and NATO.
The latest allegations come amid continuing tensions between Russia and Western countries over security and intelligence activity in the region.
