Ministry of National Defence
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Poland detains dual Polish-Ukrainian citizen at military academy on espionage suspicion
Poland's Military Gendarmerie detained a 31-year-old dual Polish-Ukrainian citizen, named Vasyl, who was enrolled in a reservist officer training course at the Military Medical Academy in Łódź, on 16 October on suspicion of espionage. A court placed the suspect in three months' temporary arrest. Polish Deputy Minister of National Defence Cezary Tomczyk confirmed the case and indicated possible contact with the Ukrainian side as the investigation continues.
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Russian drones strike Kyiv-Warsaw train and infrastructure near Polish border, prompting Polish emergency meeting
On the morning of September 13, 2026, Russian drones struck infrastructure near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk international border crossing on the Ukraine-Poland border in Volyn Oblast, damaging a gas station, hitting a truck on the Polish side, and striking the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train about two kilometers from the Polish border. Poland scrambled fighter jets, issued air alerts in Lublin and Podkarpackie voivodeships, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk convened an emergency meeting at the Government Centre for Security, warning that Russian escalation could reach Polish territory in the coming weeks. No passengers or railway workers were injured in the locomotive strike after a Ukrzaliznytsia monitoring group warned the crew in advance and gave an evacuation signal roughly 15 minutes before impact.