Russian intelligence recruited Ukrainian refugees in Poland to sabotage weapons shipments to Kyiv, but the effort become another embarassment for the Kremlin.
The United States has taken significant steps to deter attacks, deploying hundreds of troops from the 10th Mountain Division and Patriot antimissile batteries to the Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, about 65 miles from the border with Ukraine.
Investigators found detailed instructions that had been sent to one of the network’s cells for placing derailment devices on locations of track where trains moving at even modest speeds could be sent plunging off the rails, officials said. The officials asked that the nature of the devices not be disclosed.
Some information has surfaced about three Belarusian suspects whose names were published in state media reports that proclaimed their innocence and castigated Poland for their arrests. Attempts to reach relatives or a lawyer for Posmityukha were unsuccessful. Speaking to Belarusian state-controlled Belteleradio earlier this year, Posmityukha’s father, Oleksander, called the charges against his son “crazy nonsense.”
“She said that he worked for some Russian company,” he said. “He was traveling all the time, all over the place.”The first indication of trouble came on March 5 of this year, Medvedev said, when his daughter didn’t call home as expected to wish her grandmother a happy birthday. Calls to check on her, he said, did not go through. A week later, he said, the family received a call from the Polish Foreign Ministry informing them that Medvedeva had been detained on espionage charges.
“The situation is very, in my opinion, very crazy,” Medvedev said, adding that his daughter has had emotional breakdowns at the detention site. Polish law allows suspects in national security cases to be held for months without trial. Lawyers hired by the family have attended hearings and reported that Medvedeva “just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Medvedev said.Polish officials disputed that.
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