The Internal Security Agency of Poland has detained two Russians who were distributing propaganda materials promoting the Wagner Group private military company.

"ABW (ISA, Internal Security Agency) and the police identified and detained two Russians who were distributing propaganda materials of the Wagner Group in Kraków and Warsaw,"  Mariusz Kamiński, Minister of Interior and Administration of Poland, said on Twitter.

Kamiński says that both Russians were charged with espionage. They were taken into custody.

ABW współdziałając z Policją zidentyfikowała i zatrzymała dwóch Rosjan, którzy w Krakowie i Warszawie kolportowali materiały propagandowe Grupy Wagnera. Obaj usłyszeli zarzuty, dot. m. in. szpiegostwa, i trafili do aresztu.

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— Mariusz Kamiński (@Kaminski_M_) August 14, 2023

Mariusz Kamiński, Minister of Interior and Administration of Poland and the Coordinating Minister of Poland's Special Services, announced on 16 March that the Internal Security Agency had eliminated a spy network that operated in favour of Russia. As part of this operation, nine people were detained.

Later in March, further arrests of spies exposed from this network took place in Poland. In particular, a Russian hockey player was detained in Poland on suspicion of espionage on 30 June.

On 4 August, a citizen of Belarus who was spying for the Russian Federation was detained in Poland.