Nine Ukrainians and two Belarusians were deported from Poland on Monday, June 29th. Their alleged crime? Using Russian money to recruit Ukrainian ‘dissident’ refugees into protesting against the Zelensky government in Kyiv.
According to the Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW),
The organisers aimed to gradually influence the Ukrainian refugee community in Poland and use this group to promote political slogans.
Poland’s internal security agency has long claimed that Russia and Belarus are engaged in “operations that fall outside of classic aggression, aimed at undermining public trust, fuelling tensions and exploiting people fleeing war as instruments of Russian influence,” as part of a ‘hybrid war’ against the West.
Concerningly, the ABW added that “emotive topics including corruption scandals that have hit the government of [the] Ukrainian President” were used to trigger protests. This claim would pave the way for PM Donald Tusk’s zealously pro-Zelensky government to clamp down on genuine exile dissent with the regime in Kyiv.
