{"id":493541,"date":"2025-10-27T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=493541"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:19:28","slug":"polish-security-services-detain-two-ukrainian-citizens-on-suspicion-of-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-security-services-detain-two-ukrainian-citizens-on-suspicion-of-espionage","title":{"rendered":"Polish Security Services Detain Two Ukrainian Citizens on Suspicion of Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency, in cooperation with the Military Counterintelligence Service, has detained two Ukrainian citizens in Katowice on suspicion of espionage.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cA 32-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman carried out intelligence tasks, including identifying Poland\u2019s military potential and installing devices for covert surveillance of critical infrastructure. The information they collected concerned personnel of the Polish Armed Forces and critical infrastructure located in Poland, including transport facilities supporting the logistics and military assistance of war-torn Ukraine,\u201d<\/i> said <b>Jacek Dobrzy\u0144ski<\/b>, spokesperson for the minister-coordinator of special services.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were detained on October 14. Their activities allegedly took place between May 2023 and August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Charges have been filed, and a court has ordered their detention for three months.<\/p>\n<p>A week earlier, Polish Prime Minister <b>Donald Tusk<\/b> announced the arrest of eight people on suspicion of espionage and sabotage. On the same day, security services revealed information about three Ukrainian nationals \u2014 one detained near Warsaw and two others in Romania. According to the services, they had organized the shipment of packages containing flammable and explosive materials.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the authorities reported the detention of two Ukrainian citizens in Bia\u0142a Podlaska. Police discovered drugs during a routine inspection of one suspect, while a check of the second man\u2019s phone revealed evidence of cooperation with a foreign intelligence service.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Dobrzy\u0144ski also reported the detention of another individual in connection with an arson incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency, in cooperation with the Military Counterintelligence Service, has detained two Ukrainian citizens in Katowice on suspicion of espionage. \u201cA 32-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman carried out intelligence tasks, including identifying Poland\u2019s military potential and installing devices for covert surveillance of critical infrastructure. The information they collected concerned personnel of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68ff2b1598266.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Security Services Detain Two Ukrainian Citizens on Suspicion of Espionage"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}