Poland deploys police special forces to Kaliningrad border over sabotage threat

Polish Police Chief Commander Marek Boroń announced a preventive operation in two border voivodeships. RMF FM reported that Polish and allied military intelligence had warned of possible sabotage and incursions by armed groups from Russia.

Polish police are conducting a special operation in the Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie voivodeships, which border the Kaliningrad region. The operation was prompted by indications that sabotage may occur along this section of the border in the coming days. Polish Police Chief Commander Marek Boroń told RMF FM.

He said an operations headquarters had been established at Police Headquarters, with regional commands in Olsztyn and Białystok involved in the operation. Reinforcements from several regions, including counterterrorism units, have been deployed to the border area. Police are working with the army, the Border Guard and the security services, while Boroń said some of the information about the threat had come from “external services.”

Military intelligence warning

RMF FM sources claim that last week Poland’s Military Intelligence Service and allied security services warned of possible sabotage along the border with Russia, including the possibility of armed groups breaching it. No one has officially confirmed this part of the information: police describe the operation as preventive and have not disclosed details.

Polish counterterrorism officers near a helicopter

On October 29, Deputy Police Chief Commander Tomasz Mihułka ordered personnel to remain on full alert from November 2 to 8. On social media, the order was linked to the crisis surrounding the Constitutional Tribunal, but police rejected that explanation. In a letter to officers, Boroń wrote that they needed to prepare for attempts at destabilization by “eastern services.”

Not the first alert

Warsaw has already accused Russian security services of setting fire to a shopping center on Marywilska Street in 2024 and blowing up a railway track in November 2025. Moscow denies involvement. There has been no official reaction from the Russian side to the new operation.

Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański; Policja Lubuska (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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