Overview
- Prime Minister Donald Tusk said eight suspects were detained across Poland in recent days on suspicion of preparing sabotage.
- Security services report the group scouted military sites and critical infrastructure and assembled parcels designed to ignite or explode in transit.
- Polish prosecutors say a 21-year-old Ukrainian arrested near Warsaw acted on orders from Russian intelligence to prepare booby‑trapped shipments bound for Ukraine.
- Romania’s SRI and DIICOT said they defused two improvised explosive parcels at a Bucharest courier office on October 16 and arrested two Ukrainian suspects now in pretrial custody, with devices disguised as auto parts or headphones and using thermite and barium nitrate.
- Authorities in both countries cite coordinated investigations and say the effort sought to intimidate the public and destabilize EU nations backing Ukraine, noting 55 related detentions in Poland in recent months.