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https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/05/12/poland-accuses-russian- intelligence-of-2024-arson-we-will-get-you-all-n3802693

Exactly a year ago today there was a massive fire at the largest shopping
mall in Warsaw. The Marywilska 44 shopping center was home to over 1.400 different retailers and was almost completely destroyed by the fire, but fortunately no one was hurt.

Yesterday, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that fire was an
act of arson carried out by Russian intelligence services. He posted this
on X:

We now know for sure that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping centre
in Warsaw was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special services.
Some of the perpetrators have already been detained, all the others are identified and searched for. We will get you all!

The BBC has more:

A joint statement by Poland's justice and interior ministers said the
actions of those in custody were "organised and directed by a specific
person residing in the Russian Federation."

The two ministries added that they were co-operating with Lithuania "where
some of the perpetrators also carried out acts of diversion".

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Poland has detained
and convicted several people accused of sabotage on behalf of Russian intelligence services.

Polish officials have said that these attacks have been part of a "hybrid
war" waged by Moscow.

Today, Poland closed the Russian consulate in Krakow.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said Monday that he was ordering
the closure of Russia�s consulate in the southern city of Krakow after
Polish authorities said Russia was responsible for a fire that destroyed a shopping center in Warsaw last year...

This leaves only one Russian consulate left, in Gdansk.

True to form, Russia is denying everything and claiming they are the
victim here.

Speaking with journalists on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
described the accusations as being groundless and rooted in anti-Russian sentiment. He also said that Warsaw�s decision to close the consulate
would damage bilateral relations between Russia and Poland, which Peskov described as already being in �a deplorable state.�

�Poland is choosing hostility against us,� he said.

Unlike Ukraine, Poland is already a NATO member so there's no doubt that
acts of aggression by Russia against Poland could trigger a NATO response.
In fact, NATO issued a warning to Russia about attacks on Poland in March.

�When it comes to the defense of Poland and the general defense of NATO territory, if anyone were to miscalculate and think they can get away with
an attack on Poland or any other ally, they will be met with the full
force of this fierce alliance,� Rutte said at a press conference with
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk during a visit to Warsaw.

�Our reaction will be devastating. This must be clear to Vladimir
Vladimirovich Putin and anyone else who wants to attack us,� Rutte added, praising Poland for spending 4.7 percent of its gross domestic product on defense, the highest level in the alliance.

The beauty of hybrid warfare for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is that he
gets to thumb his nose at NATO and the US while hiding behind tissue thin plausible deniability. This will work because NATO doesn't want to launch
a strike based on a disputed case.

This is not the only hybrid warfare Russia has been carrying out against
NATO countries. Russia has also been accused of sabotaging several
undersea cables. And last November the Wall Street Journal reported that
Russia was planning to sabotage US airliners.

Western security officials say they believe that two incendiary devices, shipped via DHL, were part of a covert Russian operation that ultimately
aimed to start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S.
and Canada, as Moscow steps up a sabotage campaign against Washington and
its allies.

The devices ignited at DHL logistics hubs in July, one in Leipzig,
Germany, and another in Birmingham, England. The explosions set off a multinational race to find the culprits...

Poland�s National Prosecutor�s Office said authorities there have arrested
four people in connection with the fires and charged them with
participating in sabotage or terrorist operations on behalf of a foreign intelligence agency. Poland is working with other countries to find at
least two more suspects.

�The group�s goal was also to test the transfer channel for such parcels,
which were ultimately to be sent to the United States of America and
Canada,� the prosecutor�s office said, without saying who was
orchestrating the group�s efforts.

All of this is happening against the backdrop of President Trump trying to bring both Ukraine and Russia to the table for peace talks. After the
blowout at the White House in February, Ukraine has seemed somewhat more willing to make a deal but Russia continues to irritate President Trump
who warned them to stop the attacks on civilians just a couple weeks ago. Yesterday, Trump expressed some more frustration with Putin.

Earlier this morning President Trump said he was still considering
attending that meeting if it happens.

So we'll see what happens in a few days, with or without Trump's presence
in Turkey, but obviously the President isn't going to blow up possible
peace talks by accusing Russia of attacking Poland. So Russia will get
away with this, at least for now.


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