(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, AUG 4 - Poland on Friday said it had
detained a Belarusian man on suspicion of being part of a
"Russian spy ring" which it claimed planned to derail trains
carrying aid to Ukraine. Poland, a key ally of Ukraine, had
previously reported arrests in the investigation, including that
of a Russian ice hockey player in June who was also held on
espionage charges. "Belarusian Mikhail A. took part in
reconnaissance of military facilities and ports. He also carried
out propaganda activities for Russia," Kaminski said on Twitter,
recently rebranded as X, adding the man was the sixteenth person
held in connection with the alleged spy network. The Polish
government said Friday that the Belarusian came to Poland in
2021 and "maintained contacts with citizens of the Russian
Federation, with whom he was meeting in Saint Petersburg and
Crimea." "The man often changed the means of communication and
was destroying traces of his criminal activities," the statement
said, adding that the 39-year-old pleaded "partly guilty".
(ANSA-AFP).
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