WARSAW
\nPoland\u2019s prime minister said on Tuesday that its security agency had detained a \u201cBelarusian agent,\u201d adding that the EU member would also expel a Belarusian diplomat for \u201csupporting aggressive activity\u201d against Poland.
\nSince Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, relations between Poland, one of Kyiv\u2019s main supporters in the European Union, and neighboring Belarus, a Moscow ally, have sunk to a low.
\nBesides their tense relations over the Ukraine conflict, Poland also accuses Belarus of arranging for a wave of asylum seekers from third countries to cross the border into Poland, in what Warsaw says is a bid to destabilize the EU.
\nPoland\u2019s ABW internal security agency \u201cdetained a Belarusian agent yesterday. The detention was the result of cooperation between the (intelligence) services of Romania and the Czech Republic among others,\u201d Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X.
\nPolish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak identified the Belarusian agent as Uladzislau N. He said the intelligence services of Hungary and Moldova had also been involved in the operation that resulted in the detention.
\n\u201cThe suspect conducted intelligence activity on Polish and Hungarian territory,\u201d Siemoniak said on X, adding that prosecutors had charged him with espionage.
\nTusk said that \u201ca Belarusian diplomat supporting aggressive activity by Belarusian services against our country will also be expelled from Poland.\u201d
\nSiemoniak said the foreign ministry had summoned the Belarusian charge d\u2019affaires to inform him that the diplomat\u2019s accreditation had been revoked and the envoy designated as personan non grata in Poland.
\nSiemoniak said the diplomat had been \u201cdirectly involved in intelligence activity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WARSAW Poland\u2019s prime minister said on Tuesday that its security agency had detained a \u201cBelarusian agent,\u201d adding that the EU member would also expel a Belarusian diplomat for \u201csupporting aggressive activity\u201d against Poland. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, relations between Poland, one of Kyiv\u2019s main supporters in the European Union, and neighboring Belarus, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-501891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n