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Belarusian man detained - suspected spy for Russia  

 

Poland has detained a Belarusian man suspected of espionage, writes AFP. The man is said to have been part of a "Russian spy network" and is the 16th person to be arrested on suspicion of belonging to the network. Among the others arrested is also a Russian ice hockey player who played in the highest league in Poland. 

 

According to the Polish government, the Belarusian man will come to Poland in 2021. Since then, he has "maintained contact with Russian citizens whom he met in St. Petersburg and in Crimea." The man reportedly pleaded "partially guilty".  

 

According to the government, the spy network must have engaged in trying to derail trains transporting aid to Ukraine, but also trying to create a negative image against Ukraine and the Polish aid to the country.  

 

 

Oil refinery in Mozyr in Belarus. Sergei Grits / AP  

 

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Task: Russia plans fake attack in Belarus  

 

Russia is preparing a false flag attack on the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus. This is stated by the Ukrainian security service according to Reuters.  

 

The purpose of the plans is said to be to blame the attack on Ukrainian saboteurs in order to draw Belarus into the war.  

 

The security service states that information comes from several sources, including from a Russian military officer.

 

 

Port of Novorossiysk. Archive image. AP 

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Ukraine: Shipwrecked by the Black Sea Fleet 

A ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was destroyed in this morning's attack on the naval base in Novorossiysk in southern Russia. That according to Ukrainian intelligence, writes The Guardian.  

The newspaper has obtained an unverified clip that purports to show a ship leaning heavily to one side at the base in Novorossiysk. Sources told Reuters that the attack was carried out by Ukrainian maritime drones operating on or below the surface of the water. An intelligence source told CNN that the two drones were loaded with 450 kilograms of explosives.  

The information comes after Russia claimed during the morning that it had repelled several Ukrainian attacks against a naval base in the Black Sea and against the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula.  

 

Port of Izmail. Archive image. Andrew Kravchenko/AP  

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UK: Russia more likely to take risks  

In recent weeks, Russia has carried out repeated drone attacks against Ukrainian ports along the Danube River, the British Ministry of Defense writes in its daily update on X, formerly Twitter. The attacks are interpreted as an attempt to stop international trade at the ports. 

In connection with attacks, drones are said to have hit targets just 200 meters from the border with Romania. The British interpret it as Russia becoming more inclined to take risks and carry out attacks near NATO territory.  

Earlier this week, 40,000 tons of grain were destroyed in an attack on Izmail, Ukraine's largest inland port.