Foreign citizens suspected of working for Russian and Belarusian special services have been detained in Poland.

The corresponding announcement appeared on the website of the Polish government.

The Military Counterintelligence Service of Poland has identified two foreign citizens, who have already been arrested for three months by court order.

One of those suspected of spying for Russia was detained on March 21.

The foreigner is suspected to have carried out special intelligence activities for the benefit of the Russian special services.

“Investigation materials show that he collected information, in particular, about critical infrastructure in the Pomeranian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeships, as well as about the activities of services and bodies responsible for security. The man handed over the received information to the Russian services,” the statement reads.

It is stated that during the investigation, the suspect admitted to the charges and revealed the details of his actions, as well as the circumstances of his recruitment by Russian intelligence, for which he has been working at least since January of this year.

In addition, on March 1, based on counterintelligence information, another foreigner who worked for the Belarusian special services was detained in Poland.

It was established that the suspect had been conducting reconnaissance of important objects, including those related to the Armed Forces of Poland.

The court in Lublin decided to temporarily arrest the person for three months.

As previously reported, a Russian espionage network has been recently exposed in Poland, which monitored the routes of supplying military equipment to Ukraine. They installed hidden cameras on important highways and railway junctions. The spies were detained near the eastern borders of Poland.

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 20 people suspected of cooperation with Russian or Belarusian intelligence have already been detained in Poland.