The suspects had allegedly been gathering intelligence on military logistics supporting Kiev, Warsaw’s security agency has said
Two Ukrainian citizens have been arrested in Poland on suspicion of conducting espionage for a foreign intelligence agency, Warsaw’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) announced on Monday.
The arrests took place on October 14 in the southern city of Katowice. Both men – aged 32 and 34 – were charged the same day, according to the ABW statement. The agency declined to name the suspects, citing reasons of national security.
According to investigators, the two had been collecting intelligence on Poland’s military and critical infrastructure, including facilities and routes used for delivering Western weapons to Ukraine. The ABW said it had uncovered evidence of payments made for their surveillance services “and other criminal activities.”
The men were allegedly recruited sometime between May 2023 and August 2025, the Polish authorities said.
Warsaw is among the most vocal supporters of Kiev’s war effort against Russia. However, bilateral relations have been undermined by several sources of friction.
Poland was among several Eastern European nations which banned imports of Ukrainian grain after a relaxation of restrictions on such imports by the European Commission suppressed local prices and caused widespread protests by farmers.
Polish officials have also repeatedly criticized Kiev’s lionization of Ukrainian nationalist figures who were involved in massacres of Polish nationals during World War II. Polish President Karol Nawrocki has proposed criminalizing public support for the ideology of Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator who is considered a national hero in Ukraine.
