Group of Ukrainian refugees recruited by Russia for sabotage exposed in Poland – The Washington Post

This is stated in The Washington Post’s publication.

According to Polish law enforcement officials, the Russian General Staff instructed the recruits to scout Polish seaports, install video cameras along railways, and hide tracking devices in military cargo. There were even more serious tasks, such as derailing trains carrying weapons to Ukraine.

Poland believes that this posed the most serious Russian threat on NATO soil since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine last year, the newspaper notes.

Among the detainees are 12 Ukrainian refugees, one Russian and three citizens of Belarus. A law enforcement officer involved in the investigation, the newspaper writes, said that these mercenaries were instructed to commit arson and murder.

According to Poland's Internal Security Service (ABW), Moscow recruited refugees using, among other things, Russian-language Telegram channels. Ads for potential saboteurs were placed among job and rental offers, etc. The ads promised to pay a few dollars for posting anti-American and anti-NATO slogans. After that, more complex tasks were offered for more money.

Recruits were paid in cryptocurrency and bank transfers from untraceable accounts.

The newspaper adds that the potential saboteurs were discovered by accident: a passerby noticed a camera lens peeking out from the trees and shrubs on an important stretch of track and reported the discovery to authorities. Using the camera data and other information, law enforcement officers tracked down the entire group.

• On August 15, the Center for National Resistance reported that Russians were preparing a provocation at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant and had developed a plan to evacuate the population in case of radioactive contamination.

• Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that Ukraine had nothing to do with Russia's plans to organize a provocation at the Kursk nuclear power plant.