“Since the fall of 2025, those individuals have been recruiting and paying participants of protests by Ukrainian refugees in Poland. According to the Agency’s findings, they were inspired and funded from Russia, and this has been classified as an attempt to influence Ukrainian refugees in Poland,” said Šemonjak today on social media platform X.
Five Ukrainians, four Ukrainian women, and two Belarusians were arrested in Warsaw, Wrocław, Kraków, Zakopane, and Bydgoszcz.
Protest participants were paid from Russia. The goal was to gradually gain control over the Ukrainian diaspora in Poland and use it to promote political slogans. Daily events in Ukraine’s internal politics and information about corruption scandals were used to incite protests, according to a statement from the Polish Internal Security Agency.
Polish authorities assessed that these operations are not yet classic attacks by Russia, such as diversions or sabotage, but that their aim is to undermine trust in society, raise tensions, and use people fleeing from war as tools of Russian influence abroad.
“The arrested individuals have already been deported from Poland,” stated the spokesperson for Minister Šemonjak, Jacek Dobżinjski.
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