Ladies and Gentlemen,

in recent days, the Internal Security Agency (ABW) has detained nine persons suspected of collaborating with Russian special services. The suspects conducted intelligence activities against Poland, preparing diversionary acts on the Russian intelligence commission.

The detainees are foreigners from across the eastern border. The court applied pre-trial detention to six of them. The prosecutor's office charged them with espionage for Russia and participation in an organised criminal group. Prosecutorial actions are pending against three of those detained yesterday.

Evidence indicates that the group monitored railway routes. Its tasks included identifying, monitoring and documenting arms shipments for Ukraine. The suspects also prepared for diversionary actions aimed at paralysing the supply of equipment, arms and aid to Ukraine.

ABW officers secured cameras, electronic equipment, and GPS transmitters to be mounted on aid shipments to Ukraine.

Information gathered by the Internal Security Agency shows that the group was also commissioned to perform propaganda activities to destabilise Polish-Ukrainian relations, stoke and arouse sentiment in Poland hostile to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation states and attack the Polish Government's policy towards Ukraine.

The Internal Security Agency is in possession of evidence that the Russian special services regularly remunerated the suspects. The group members were systematically paid for their tasks as part of the intelligence activities.

The case is dynamic and developing. The services subordinate to me, headed by the Internal Security Agency, are constantly carrying out intensive activities. We will inform the public about their effects in due course.

Mariusz Kamiński
Minister Coordinator of Special Services
Minister of the Interior and Administration