A prosecutor from the Lublin division of the National Prosecutor’s Office (PZ PK) has brought charges against five individuals for acting on behalf of a foreign intelligence service against the Republic of Poland, the prosecution announced. The case concerns two Ukrainian citizens and three Belarusian citizens.
On 25-26 November 2025, five people were detained in Warsaw and Białystok: two Ukrainian citizens (Oleksandr S. and a minor, Sofiia Ch.) and three Belarusian citizens (Viktoryia M., Anton M., and Uladzimir U.).
From 26 to 27 November, procedural actions were carried out with them at the National Prosecutor’s Office branch in Lublin. The court imposed three months of pre-trial detention on Viktoryia M., Oleksandr S., and Anton M. The minor, Sofiia Ch., was placed in a juvenile shelter for three months. As for Uladzimir U., who is hospitalized, the prosecutor imposed a ban on leaving the country.
According to a statement released by ABW, the case concerns an investigation into activities carried out between March 2024 and February 2025 in Rzeszów, Warsaw, Łódź, and other locations within the territory of the Republic of Poland, involving participation in the operations of a foreign intelligence service.
The identified individuals had been recruited by a coordinator operating via the TELEGRAM messaging platform and engaged in acts of sabotage by undertaking actions directed against the Republic of Poland. These included producing and transmitting photographic documentation of facilities and thereby obtaining information on critical infrastructure, systems, and sites essential to the security of Poland and its citizens, as well as distributing posters and creating graffiti.
It was added that these individuals “remained ready to carry out orders and other tasks assigned by those commissioning activities within this structure, for which they were paid from a cryptocurrency wallet.” It was also emphasized that these behaviors “fit the established and well-known modus operandi of Russian intelligence.”