Polish authorities believe that the Russian military intelligence agency GRU recruited people in online job advertisements to prevent the supply of weapons to Ukraine through the country’s territory, they write Washington Post. Thus, the Poles would prevent the most serious Russian threat on NATO territory since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year.

At the beginning of this year, mysterious job advertisements appeared on the Internet.

The tasks in the classifieds were easy – posting flyers and signs in public places – and the pay was quite low. But for a handful of refugees in eastern Ukraine, the promise of a quick buck was too good to pass up.

The respondents soon realized that there was a ruse: the vacancies involved the distribution of pro-Russian propaganda on behalf of an anonymous employer. For those who still wanted to complete the task, the work took an ominous turn.

For several weeks, the recruits were tasked with searching Polish ports, placing cameras along railways and hiding tracking devices in military cargo, Polish investigators said. Then, in March, new stunning orders appeared, namely, the derailment of trains with weapons to Ukraine.

Polish authorities now believe that the mysterious employer was the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, and that the botched operation represented the worst Russian threat on NATO soil since Moscow launched its “special operation” last year.

Russia’s aim was to disrupt arms transfers through Poland, through which more than 80 percent of the military equipment supplied to Ukraine passes, a huge flow that turned the tide of the war and which Russia appeared powerless to interrupt, according to Polish officials. and Western security.

Instead, the story was yet another blow to Russian intelligence services, whose unsubstantiated assessments that Kyiv could be easily overthrown shaped the disastrous invasion plan, and whose once-wide-spread networks in Europe have been “damaged” by waves of expulsions and arrests.