WARSAW (Reuters) -A Russian citizen suspected of coordinating acts of sabotage against Poland, the United States and other allies was deported to Poland from Bosnia and Herzegovina and arrested by a court order, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X on Friday.
Last month, a court in Bosnia and Herzegovina reviewed a Polish request to extradite a Russian citizen on charges of sabotage.
Earlier in January, Tusk said Russia had planned “acts of terrorism” in the air against Poland and other countries.
Security officials have said that parcels which exploded at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States. The explosions occurred in depots in Britain, Germany and Poland in July.
The Kremlin said the allegations by Tusk that Russia had planned “acts of terrorism” in the air against Poland and other countries was completely unsubstantiated.
In a separate post on X, Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said on Friday the suspect was arrested for three months, adding that the deportation and the arrest were “a serious blow to the Russian sabotage network in Europe.”
(Reporting by Marek Strzelecki, Editing by William Maclean and Alistair Bell)
