The increasing number of spy scandals in Europe is putting politicians increasingly in the spotlight. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk reacted particularly drastically to the arrest of Polish citizens who allegedly collaborated with Russian secret services. He is now threatening harsh consequences.
“There will be no leniency for employees of the Russian secret services. We will strike with red-hot iron every betrayal and every attempt at destabilization,” he wrote on the short message service X (formerly Twitter) on Friday.
Radical football fans targeted Zelensky
On the current status of the investigation into two specific conspiracies, he said that a Pole responsible for an averted assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was arrested two days ago. The man worked with the Russian secret services.
A Belarusian who worked for the Russians and ordered two Poles to attack an associate of dead Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny was arrested, as were the attackers themselves. The latter were radical football fans, so-called ultras, Tusk wrote.
More and more arrests in Poland
On Thursday, Polish authorities announced the arrest of a man who allegedly spied on the airport in Rzeszow, southeastern Poland, to prepare an assassination attempt on Zelenskiy. The airport is considered a transfer point for Western arms deliveries to Ukraine and a transfer point for Zelensky and other Ukrainian politicians on visits abroad.
The arrest of two Poles wanted in Lithuania was announced on Friday. They are said to have carried out an attack on Navalny’s confidante Leonid Volkov in March. Volkov was seriously injured in Vilnius.
Source: Krone
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