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Poland Detains 32 in Russia-Backed Sabotage, ABW Discloses Agent’s Sentence

Officials say the coordinated arrests follow a probe into a Russia-backed campaign targeting construction depots before spilling over into the Czech Republic.

In Krakow, Poland, on July 11, 2025, police participate in the 3rd Black March of Wolyn 1943 on the 82nd anniversary of ''Bloody Sunday'' as they march through the streets of Krakow. The III Black March commemorates the 82nd anniversary of the Wolyn massacre, in which about 80,000 Poles die in 1943. First, a holy mass is celebrated in the intention of the victims, and then the participants of the march go to the monument to the Victims of Ukrainian Genocide at the Rakowicki cemetery. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Overview

  • ABW spokesman Jacek Dobrzyński said a 27-year-old Colombian national received an eight-year term in the Czech Republic and faces up to life in prison in Poland after a partial guilty plea for arson attacks.
  • The agency revealed the agent was trained by operatives linked to Russian intelligence on making incendiary devices and documenting attacks for propaganda.
  • Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the detainees include Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Colombian nationals suspected of aiding the sabotage operation.
  • Investigators have tied fires at two Polish construction supply depots, a Warsaw shopping centre blaze and a Czech bus depot attack to the hybrid warfare campaign.
  • Earlier this year Poland ordered the closure of Russian consulates in Poznan and Krakow in response to related sabotage incidents.