Special services spokesman details expulsions from Poland

In March 2019, a Russian vice consul at the Russian consulate in Poznan, western Poland, was expelled from Poland and the EU's Schengen area, one of a number of diplomatic expulsions in the last year presented to PAP by the special services spokesman. The Russian vice consul was expelled on the basis of information acquired by Internal Security Agency (ABW) counter-intelligence, that he was carrying out activities incompatible with his diplomatic status that could damage Polish-Russian relations, the spokesman for the minister coordinator of special services, Stanislaw Zaryn, told PAP. In addition, Zaryn said that based on material acquired by ABW at the end of 2017, three 'experts' had been denied entry to the Schengen area: Oleg Bondarenko, Dmitry Kondrashov and Aleksei Martynov, for "conducting hybrid activities to the detriment of Poland and other countries." Zaryn said they had "fulfilled the role of moderators of Russian hybrid activities in Europe."