Warsaw's security services have announced that an operation against the Russian espionage network is underway.
During the operation, which began on Wednesday, the Polish Security Services (ABW) carried out searches in Warsaw and Tychy (in the south) and "interrogated some people".
The operation was the result of cooperation between the ABW and several European services, including the Czech authorities: Prague announced a similar operation yesterday.
The goal of the network targeted by the operation was "to achieve the Kremlin's foreign policy objectives, in particular to weaken Poland's position on the international stage, discredit Ukraine and the image of the institutions of the European Union," wrote the Abw in a press note. These objectives were to be achieved through the pro-Russian website "voice-of-europe.eu".
The operation was also the result of the indictment in January of a Polish citizen suspected of spying for the Russian secret service, Abw added.
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