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A drawstring of arrests, including 2 Poles accused of attacking a Navalny adjutant and a 3rd for ties to a imaginable crippled against Ukraine’s president, person amplified worries of Russian infiltration.
April 19, 2024, 4:22 p.m. ET
The authorities successful Poland and Germany person arrested astatine slightest 5 of their citizens successful caller days and accused them of spying for Russia oregon of offering to assistance Moscow perpetrate unit connected European soil, including a “possible attack” connected the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The arrests underscored fears of the Kremlin’s furtive web successful the West and its usage of overseas nationals, including convulsive criminals and shot hooligans, to terrify oregon perchance adjacent termination opponents sheltering abroad.
The Polish National Prosecutor’s Office said successful a connection that a Polish citizen, identified arsenic Pawel K., was detained connected Wednesday. It said helium had offered to assistance Russian agents successful a imaginable crippled aimed astatine sidesplitting Mr. Zelensky.
It gave fewer details, different than saying helium had “declared his readiness to enactment for the subject quality of the Russian Federation and established contacts with citizens of the Russian Federation straight progressive successful the warfare successful Ukraine.”
Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland said connected Friday that the constabulary had besides arrested 2 Polish citizens for attacking a apical aide to the Russian absorption campaigner Aleksei A. Navalny extracurricular the aide’s location successful Vilnius, the superior of Lithuania, past period with a hammer. The Polish person said a national of Belarus, who allegedly had ordered up the onslaught connected Moscow’s behalf, had besides been apprehended. Mr. Navalny died successful Russian situation successful February.
“There volition beryllium nary leniency for collaborators with the Russian services,” Mr. Tusk said successful his connection connected Friday. He vowed to stamp retired “every betrayal and effort astatine destabilization.”
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