“In Poland, five men were accused of committing or organizing sabotage in order to send explosive parcels to Great Britain, the USA, Canada and other countries.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Illustrative photo: getty images Source: this was announced by the National Prosecutor’s Office of Poland, writes “Evropeyska Pravda”
Details: If found guilty, they face life imprisonment.
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Four Ukrainians and one Russian were charged with “acting on behalf of the intelligence services of the Russian Federation.”
They were accused of committing or preparing sabotage against logistics and aviation infrastructure, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The statement noted that one of them, Vladyslav D., planned to prepare parcels with hidden incendiary devices and explosives and send them to Great Britain and Poland.
Another, Vyacheslav S., planned “future sabotage actions”, including sending two test parcels to the USA and Canada.
The third, Vladyslav B., was accused of receiving, storing and transporting parcels between the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, and the central city of Kaunas.
Prosecutors said they submitted five indictments to the court, which will now take up the case.
“The accused face life imprisonment,” said the spokesman of the National Prosecutor’s Office, Przemysław Novak.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine told Reuters that the suspects were identified and detained in cooperation with the Ukrainian authorities.
He urged Ukrainian citizens to ignore “promises of easy money” from Russian intelligence.
In September, Lithuania announced the exposure of a group of people who planned four terrorist attacks in different European countries. According to the investigation, in July 2024, Lithuanian citizen Aleksandras Shuranovas, in cooperation with accomplices, sent four parcels with improvised explosive devices from Vilnius by postal services.
Two were sent to Britain via DHL, two to Poland via the DPD service, where delivery was carried out by trucks. Parcels sent via DHL caught fire – one at Leipzig airport, another already in a warehouse in Birmingham. Of those sent to Poland, one caught fire in the truck, and the device did not work in the other.
16 people are suspected in the Lithuanian pre-trial investigation into the sending of parcels with explosive devices through major postal services.
The media reported even earlier that the investigation sees signs of the involvement of Russian special services in the incidents.