Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has detained two Ukrainian nationals on suspicion of espionage for a foreign intelligence service. The suspects are accused of gathering intelligence on Poland’s military logistics and infrastructure, including facilities and routes used for delivering Western weapons to Ukraine. The arrests took place in the southern city of Katowice on October 14, with both men aged 32 and 34 charged the same day. The ABW declined to name the suspects, citing national security concerns.
According to investigators, the two had been collecting information on Poland’s military and critical infrastructure, including facilities and routes for delivering Western weapons to Ukraine. The ABW stated that evidence of payments made for their surveillance services and other criminal activities was uncovered.
The men were allegedly recruited between May 2023 and August 2025. Warsaw, which has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, faces several sources of friction with Kyiv. These include issues such as trade restrictions, where Poland was among several Eastern European nations that banned imports of Ukrainian grain after the European Commission relaxed restrictions on such imports, leading to protests by farmers.
Polish officials have also criticized Kiev’s lionization of Ukrainian nationalist figures involved in massacres of Polish nationals during World War II. Polish President Karol Nawrocki proposed criminalizing public support for the ideology of Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator revered as a national hero in Ukraine.