Polish intelligence services monitored conversations involving a former Belarusian presidential candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, during her visit to Poland. It is suggested that Member of Parliament Joachim Brudziński may have played a role in the alleged tapping of Tikhanovskaya’s phone, a claim reported by Gazeta Wyborcza.
According to the publication, Brudziński stated in May that a health professional would attend Tikhanovskaya’s meetings, a detail the reporters interpreted as a clue that phone lines at the venue were compromised. The article emphasizes that the security services focused primarily on Tikhanovskaya’s interactions with opposition figures in 2023, noting that listening devices were reportedly placed in one of Warsaw’s hotels during a period when the Law and Justice party held the majority in the Sejm.
The report adds that Polish intelligence’s interest centered on the opposition’s activities in the Polish capital, with the implication that surveillance infrastructure was deployed in hotel facilities in alignment with the political climate at the time.
Separately, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova remarked that the United States could be listening to conversations involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, and that such intelligence-sharing might include reports about their discussions. The claim appears in the context of broader debates about cross-border eavesdropping and diplomatic transparency.
Previously, experts described methods to detect covert listening devices using ordinary smartphones, underscoring ongoing concerns about how personal devices can become vectors for information leakage and surveillance in politically sensitive environments. The dialogue around these issues remains active in public discourse and international diplomacy, reflecting heightened attention to privacy versus security considerations.