The counterintelligence stopped an 18-year-old Ukrainian citizen, whose task, as the Polish services claim, was to fight Poles and Ukrainians on the commission of Russia. A young man was to paint in public space and at the memorials the slogan glorifying UPA and Stepan Bandera. There was Russian intelligence behind the full operation, according to the service's findings.
Detention and charges
The information was confirmed by Jacek Dobrzyński, a spokesperson for the peculiar Services Coordinator. His message shows that the 18-year-old executed a Russian order aimed at Polish-Ukrainian relations. The performer left inscriptions praising the band formation and its leader on the walls and at memorial sites. At this stage, he remains a suspect, and it is up to the court to decide the guilt. The investigation is conducted by the ABW, appointed to defend the counterintelligence country.
Hybrid War on Symbols
Password selection wasn't random. UPA and Stepan Bandera are the most hard symbols in Poland, due to the fact that they are associated with the 1943 Volyn massacre, a genocide that consumed about 1 100 1000 Polish victims. An inscription praising these perpetrators hits a live national wound. The Russian contractor was counting on it. The provocation was to look like a motion from the Ukrainians, and in fact it was a tool for a abroad intelligence.
Objective: to divide Poland and Ukraine
Moscow has a clear interest in moving Warsaw distant from Kiev. Poland is the main logistical support base for the fighting Ukraine, so breaking up this alliance would weaken the full front against Russia. Hence reaching for a delicate communicative as a trigger. The Polish services have been informing for months that Russian intelligence recruits young people for insignificant acts of diversion, sabotage and provocation, frequently through communicators and for small money.
Truth vs. Manipulation
The dispute over Volyn is real and Poland has the right to request the fact and to commemorate the victims. But what is different is an authentic historical policy, and what is different is simply a inscription painted on behalf of individual to break 2 nations. Recognizing the difference between 1 and the another is now an component of state defence. Anyone who gets carried distant with provocation, fulfills the intent of its author, and the author sits in Moscow.
Source: Interia Events
