US EditionPoland Charges Man with Orchestrating Sabotage From Russia
Mirgorodsky led a 30-member network conducting espionage, sabotage, and propaganda funded by Russia's FSB, with members convicted in Poland in 2023, prosecutors said.
- On December 2, 2025, Lublin prosecutors filed five charges accusing 28-year-old Mikhail Mirgorodsky of running an espionage and sabotage network for Russia's Federal Security Service via Telegram.
- Poland's investigators say the ring’s members, mostly Ukrainians and Belarusians, were convicted in 2023 as part of a wider investigation by Poland's Internal Security Agency .
- Prosecutors allege Russia's Federal Security Service funded and supported Mikhail Mirgorodsky, who instructed at least 30 members to install GPS tracking devices and distribute pro-Russian leaflets.
- Prosecutors are asking Interpol to issue a red notice for the suspect, who remains outside Poland and uncooperative, while fourteen convicted network members received prison sentences and authorities approved pretrial detention in Lublin.
- Since 2023, Poland has seen arson attacks destroying Warsaw's biggest shipping centre and sabotage of a rail line between Warsaw and Lublin, prompting the Polish government to close Russian consulates in Poznań last year and Kraków and Gdańsk this year.
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Poland charges Russian with orchestrating sabotage network
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Poland identifies and charges Russian citizen accused of running pro-Moscow spy network
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In Poland, a Russian led a spy network of 30 people. Russian citizen Mikhail Mirgorodsky created a criminal group for espionage and sabotage, which planned to disrupt a train. The prosecutor's office brought five charges against him, and an international wanted list was announced.
Polish prosecutors have accused in absentia a Russian citizen, Mikhail Mirgorodsky, of running a network of sabotage and espionage in Poland linked to Russia, authorities reported on Tuesday. Mirgorodsky, 28, allegedly used the Telegram messaging application to lead a group of about 30 people carrying out sabotages, arson attacks and threats against Ukrainians in Poland on behalf of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Prosecutors filed f…
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