Poland’s security services are investigating whether a fire at a facility belonging to the country’s largest drone producer WB Electronics SA was an act of sabotage.
The fire at the facility, which produces drone components, broke out shortly after midnight, special services coordinator Jacek Dobrzynski told reporters on Monday. It was quickly extinguished and the company is able to resume production, WB’s spokesman Remigiusz Wilk told Republika TV.
WB Electronics, which supplies drones to Ukraine, is one of Poland’s key arms manufacturers as the country spends a record 5% of its gross domestic product on shoring up its defenses amid a growing threat from Russia. In recent years, the nation has faced multiple acts of sabotage with Warsaw accusing Moscow of orchestrating the attacks.
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“Given the nature of the plant’s production, which is important to national security, it is natural that intelligence officials have taken an interest in the incident,” Dobrzynski said. “We are treating this matter as a priority; we need to determine whether this was an act of sabotage or if the fire was caused by something else entirely.”
Local police said in a post on X that around midnight they received a call from a security company that an anti-theft alarm had been triggered at the site. Police are now working with an expert to determine the cause of the fire.
News portal Wp.pl reported on Monday that a backpack containing an incendiary device was thrown into the building through a broken window.
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