Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW), together with the Border Guard, has detained nine Ukrainian citizens and two Belarusian citizens. They are to be deported from the country.
According to the ABW, the detainees had been recruiting and paying participants in demonstrations by Ukrainian refugees since the autumn of 2025. The funds for these activities allegedly came from Russia.
“The organisers sought to gradually influence the Ukrainian refugee community in Poland and use this group to promote political slogans. Emotional issues, including information about corruption scandals and current developments in Ukraine’s domestic politics, were used to initiate protests.
This is an example of activity below the threshold of conventional aggression, aimed at undermining public trust, fuelling tensions and exploiting people fleeing war as instruments of Russian influence operations,” the agency said.
The arrests were carried out in Warsaw, Wrocław, Kraków, Zakopane and Bydgoszcz.
