Poland detains 9 people suspected of spying for Russia

AP NEWS ^ | 3-16-2023 7:30 a.m. DST | Staff

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities said Thursday that the nation’s security services have detained members of a Russian espionage ring, alleging that they were preparing acts of sabotage in Poland and had been monitoring railroad routes used for the transport of weapons into Ukraine.

Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said the Internal Security Agency had arrested nine people suspected of spying for Russia in the case. Three were detained on Wednesday.

He said at a news conference in Warsaw that the suspects were preparing “sabotage actions aimed at paralyzing the supply of equipment, weapons and aid to Ukraine.”

He said the security agents also seized cameras, electronic equipment and GPS transmitters, which the suspects planned to place on transports carrying aid to Ukraine.

Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak suggested that the group had entered from neighboring Belarus, a Russian ally that borders NATO member Poland.

“The threat was real,” Błaszczak said on state radio.

Private radio RMF FM broke the news about the arrests, saying that the group had been collecting information in southeastern Poland around the military airport in Jasionka, which is a transit point for weapons and munitions sent to Ukraine by countries supporting Kyiv’s fight against Russia’s invasion that has entered its second year.

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Poland Detains Nine in Probe of Russia-Linked Spy Ring -Suspects monitored rails links to Ukraine, security chief says -Operatives prepared ‘sabotage activities,’ minister says Natalia Ojewska https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-16/poland-detains-nine-in-probe-of-suspected-russia-linked-spy-ring#xj4y7vzkg

[TexasFreeper2009]

naaa... this can’t be, Russia according to the Russia apologists here would never do something like that! I mean.. that might imply Russia has designs on taking back Poland too!

[2banana]

Caught red handed with cameras and GPS tracking stuff...

Dangerous spies for sure.

Except, literally, anyone with a cell phone has the same technology.

[canuck_conservative]

except not everyone suspiciously hangs around the one military airport that is supplying Ukraine ...

good thing the Polish authorities are nailing these scumbags

[Sunsong]

good on Poland

[marcusmaximus]

Belarus is saying their spies busted in Poland were just "innocent students".

[JonPreston]

Have you heard the joke about the Polish investigator?

[Timber Rattler]

You really hate Polish people with your repeated insults and insinuations, don’t you?

[JonPreston]

How dare you.

[Timber Rattler]

You're the one who's been denigrating Poles on these threads, and there are plenty of witnesses.

Seems that you are a bigot. Surprise.

[wildcard_redneck]

Let us talk about Bakhmut.

[wildcard_redneck]

All they had to do was put a burner cellphone on the trains that was turned on.

[JonPreston]

you are a bigot

You never would have made it around Henny Youngman or Rodney Dangerfield.

Here's a little tease, and remember a well developed sense of humor is the sign of normal adult development

Three men were all applying for the same job as a detective. One was Polish, one was Jewish, and one was Italian....

[wildcard_redneck]

Lighten up Snake.

[canuck_conservative]

now you’re insulting Italians too

keep it up, Jon-boy

[JonPreston]

now you’re insulting Italians too

SCTV was the last time Canadians displayed a sense of humor, until you appeared on the Forum pitching Neocon war and Biden's foreign policy.

[Allegra]

Good grief, you both sound like thin-skinned liberals screeching that everything is “bigoted.” The schools started programming kids to become offended about every little thing about three decades ago and this is the result.

Thank goodness my friends of Polish and Italian descent have senses of humor. My two closest friends in high school and I used to call each other “Polack, Wop and Mick.” We’d riff on our family heritage stereotypes all the time. And the best Polish jokes I ever heard were from my friend “Ski” in college.

Lighten up. 🙄

[MeganC]

I see you got the attention of JonPreston and his collection of sock puppet accounts.

[Kazan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JITMO4WUuaE

Mar 16, 2023

Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for March 16, 2023:

- Russian warplanes intercepted and apparently clipped the propeller of a US MQ-9 drone carrying out surveillance near Crimea;

- The US has no means of recovering the drone, though Russia may have an opportunity to recover it;

- While the drone operated in international airspace according to the US, it was collecting intelligence on behalf of Ukraine as part of ongoing hostilities, as a party of the conflict and thus threatening Russian national security;

- Bakhmut continues to face encirclement;

- The Western media has begun admitting to the grim deterioration of Ukraine’s forces under the weight of Russia’s strategy of attrition;

- Ukraine has lost the majority of troops trained by NATO over the last 8-9 years;

- Ongoing NATO training is rushed, incapable of meeting or exceeding Russia’s pool of trained manpower;

- Ammunition and weapons are also admittedly running out;

- Ukraine may or may not be diverting reserves for an upcoming spring offensive to instead fight in Bakhmut;

- Any possible counteroffensive around Bakhmut might indicate just how badly deteriorated Ukraine’s forces have become;

[Timber Rattler]

Three men were all applying for the same job as a detective. One was Polish, one was Jewish, and one was Italian....

So you're going to hide behind ethnic humor as your excuse for repeatedly denigrating Poles on this board?

That won't fly. Try doing that with some other ethnic and/or cultural group and see what happens.