A fire at a Starlink satellite station in central Poland was a deliberate “act of sabotage,” the government said Thursday, the BBC reported.
Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said the blaze in Wola Krobowska in the Masovian Voivodeship was “deliberately designed to disable the station… disrupting internet access for various institutions, including the Ukrainian army.” He told public broadcaster TVP Info an investigation was ongoing but “many indications suggest” the attack fits a “new Russian doctrine of attack.” The Kremlin has not commented. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he disliked labeling sabotage without “100% certainty, but it looks bad.” The state-owned station — which routes internet traffic through Poland to countries including Ukraine using SpaceX Starlink systems — remains operational. On Wednesday Poland also said a Russian military helicopter briefly violated its airspace, forcing fighter jets to scramble.
Denmark’s intelligence service issued a new threat assessment expecting Russia to escalate hybrid warfare in coming months, calling a conventional attack “highly unlikely” but warning of “a low but growing risk” of a limited military strike on NATO countries. Overnight into Thursday, Russian strikes killed at least eight civilians in Ukraine, with the worst hits on Kharkiv and Kyiv; Moldova and Romania reported drone airspace violations.
Sources: BBC (Alys Davies); ABC News / AP
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