“At the moment we are talking about a dozen people detained in recent months for cooperation with Russian or Belarusian secret services, i.e. from the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, says Stanisław Żaryn, Government Plenipotentiary for Information Space Security of the Republic Poland, in an interview with the wPolityce portal .pl.
Mariusz Kamiński, Minister of the Interior and Administration, announced that the ABW had arrested nine people suspected of spying for Russia. Later, one of the Belarusian opposition journalists reported that the prisoners were of Belarusian origin. Stanisław Żaryn, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, tells the behind-the-scenes story.
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The success of ABW
In this case, we can confirm that nine people who cooperated with the Russian special services and acted on their behalf were detained. These nine people are foreigners from outside our eastern border and this is the network recognized by the Internal Security Agency. This is a great success for the ABW officers. These people posed a serious threat. They carried out various activities on behalf of the Russian special services
says Stanislaw Zaryn
The operation of the Polish services is a continuation of the efforts to neutralize Russian intelligence activities against Poland. Let me remind you that the Polish services have been very effective in counterintelligence activities over the past year. At the moment we are talking about a dozen people who have been detained in recent months for cooperation with Russian or Belarusian special services, ie since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The latest information about the break-up of an espionage group, announced today by the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services, is another example of actions to neutralize threats
adds the minister.
According to Minsk propaganda, the detained spies are said to be students. The question arises whether it is possible that Belarusians studying in Poland are agents of foreign intelligence services. They are accused of serious matters such as spreading propaganda unfavorable to Ukraine and our government.
I will not refer to additions of Belarusian or Russian propaganda. We rely on what has been made public today. We are talking about a network that carried out different types of activities – mainly of an intelligence nature, ie it collected information about what happened on selected, important railway routes in Poland. It collected data on specific arms shipments to Ukraine and also carried out propaganda activities, including attempts to stir up Polish-Ukrainian tensions or anti-NATO sentiment. Attempts at subversive actions are worrying as the group sought to destabilize aid to Ukraine. This is now the Kremlin’s strategic goal
notes Zaryn.
Ochojska “water for the mill” from Minsk?
Russian and Belarusian propagandists suggest that none of this is true. They support this with the figure of Janina Ochoyska, ridiculing the suspicion that her activities favor the Lukashenko regime. Could MEP Ochoyska be a propaganda weapon for Moscow and Minsk?
Janina Ochojska is a well-known person in Poland, holds public positions, and her information impact directly corresponds to the activities of, especially, Belarusian propaganda against Poland. This politician has been formulating absurd insinuations against Poland and Polish institutions responsible for state security for a long time
– says Stanislaw Zaryn.
The same lies and innuendo have been spread by Belarusian propaganda since 2021, when Belarus and Russia launched an illegal immigration route, instigated the storming of the Polish border, and then used propaganda to defame Poland and force it to accept this migration route. Unfortunately, Mrs Ochojska’s actions are conducive to the implementation of plans aimed at Poland. We should know that public figures behaving in this way are a great gift to Belarusian hostile propaganda against Poland. On the other hand, Ms. Ochojska’s statements have nothing to do with the ABW’s investigation, which we have discussed before
he concludes.
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Source: wPolityce