A third major fire in less than a week broke out in Poland on Monday, prompting the authorities to suspect that the incidents may be linked to hybrid operations by Russian intelligence services.
The latest fire broke out in a warehouse in Siemianowice Ślaskie in southern Poland. This follows a fire in a residential building in Ząbki, near Warsaw, on 1 July, and a fire in a production hall in Mińsk Mazowiecki, around 35 km from the capital, on Sunday.
Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said on Monay that in light of Russia’s hybrid tactics, the government is treating all major fires with increased scrutiny.
“Since January 2024, we have seen several attempted acts of sabotage. Every significant incident, fire, or attempted arson is being assessed as a potential act of sabotage,” he said during a press conference.
The suspicion of Russian involvement intensified after a massive shopping center in Marywilska, Warsaw, burned down in May. The government later said it had evidence linking Russian intelligence to the incident. In response, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski ordered the closure of Russia’s consulate in Kraków.
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I’m not sure i get what you mean, why put dissident between quotation marks? Do you doubt he is?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Chichvarkin
He’s a Russian businessman who became one in the last 35 years. He’s “dissident” in the sense that he picked the wrong side.
Khodorkovsky’s close associate has been named by French, I think, police as the main suspect for ordering an attack on a Russian opposition figure recently.
Look up Navalny’s organization’s opinions of all those people. Navalny was a controversial figure for many intents and purposes, and I really hope he didn’t return to Russia because of getting desperate and tired of idiots like me mentioning those controversies. His organization might not parrot the western narratives the way Khodor and others do, but it is genuine.
Well he was still targeted, so I’d argue that alone still makes him a dissident. But my point isn’t really about this individual guy but about how Russia systematically targets places and people in Europe for various reasons all benefiting the Russian regime and European governments don’t publicly call Russia out for those things. If anything happens, it is ‘quite diplomacy’ or counter intelligents that nobody ever hears about and I’m not okay with that.
That’s because western elites are generally fine with Putin. Him being the adversary is business as usual.
While us boors not liking him they are less tolerant about.
Which is also why the main group of Russians with no impediments in Europe are Putin’s friends and propagandists and all that kind.