Speaking ahead of a Cabinet meeting, Tusk said the suspects include Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationals, as well as a Colombian man linked to two arson attacks last year.
He added that a key coordinator of Russian sabotage operations had been apprehended abroad and brought to Poland as a result of diplomatic efforts.
"At this moment, we have 32 people detained and suspected of working with Russian services, who commissioned acts of sabotage or beatings," Tusk said.
The prime minister warned that the detentions reflect a growing threat from Russia’s covert operations, which now target not only infrastructure but also political circles in Poland, state news agency PAP reported.
"Destabilizing our borders, attempting to paralyze our security services—these are closely connected to more drastic sabotage efforts like arson and assaults," he said.
"Any such action—either at the border or inside the country—is, directly or indirectly, cooperation with Russia," he said.
Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) said on Tuesday that a Colombian national acting on behalf of Russian intelligence carried out two arson attacks in Poland last year, targeting construction supply warehouses, before setting fire to a bus depot in the Czech Republic.
The 27-year-old suspect "was trained by a person connected to Russian intelligence services" and taught "how to prepare incendiary materials, Molotov cocktails, and how to document these arson attacks," Jacek Dobrzyński, a spokesman for Poland’s security services, told a news conference.
Dobrzyński added that the man "was sentenced to eight years in prison for acts of terrorism he committed" in the Czech Republic and now faces up to 10 years in prison—or even a life sentence—in Poland.
Poland has increasingly been a target of Russian sabotage and what officials describe as a "hybrid war" waged by Moscow to destabilize countries that support Ukraine in the war with Russia, involving tactics such as arson, cyberattacks and other covert operations, the Reuters news agency reported.
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Source: IAR, PAP, Reuters
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