Poland blames Starlink sabotage on Russia

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is blaming Russia for an arson attack on a Starlink satellite station in September and two Turkish citizens have been arrested in connection with the suspected act of sabotage, authorities said.The suspects, whose names were not released in line with Polish privacy rules, were arrested in Germany, Polish officials said Monday. They are accused of deliberately setting fire to Starlink infrastructure on Sept. 23 in Wola Krobowska, Poland, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Warsaw.“We have no doubt that Russian intelligence services are behind this act of sabotage,” Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland’s minister overseeing intelligence services, said in a news release, nothing that Russian intelligence services are increasingly turning to people with ties to the criminal underworld.Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, in a post on X, called the incident “another act of hybrid warfare.”Other details were not immediately available.The arson in September was one of more