Colombian hired by Russian secret service for arson attacks, says Poland
ABW said the 27-year-old suspect set fire to two construction supply depots in Poland in May 2024 on orders from the Russians as part of a hybrid warfare campaign.
'He was trained by a person connected to Russian intelligence services. They taught him how to prepare incendiary materials, Molotov cocktails, and how to document these arson attacks,' Jacek Dobrzynski, a spokesperson for the co-ordinator of special services, told a press conference.
Photographs and video recordings were used by Russian-language media for disinformation and propaganda purposes, ABW said.
Russian media then falsely reported that one of the fires was at a logistics centre in the city of Radom used to store military equipment provided by Europe as aid for Ukraine, Dobrzynski said.
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