Polish Prime Minister Says Fire at Drone Factory Was Sabotage

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said there was no doubt that a fire at a factory producing combat-drone components was a deliberate act of arson. Prosecutors are investigating the blaze as possible terrorism and activity for a foreign intelligence service against Poland.

The fire broke out Monday at a WB Electronics plant in Skarzysko-Kamienna, about 150 kilometers south of Warsaw. No one was injured. According to broadcaster RMF FM, the company’s surveillance cameras may show a man wearing a balaclava and carrying a backpack setting the fire inside one of the rooms. The intruder reportedly also triggered the alarm system.

Tusk said investigators could not exclude arson in a second fire at a factory producing aviation components near Lublin. In that case, however, authorities did not yet have clear evidence. The fire broke out Sunday in a production and storage hall operated by JFG Composites in eastern Poland.

WB Electronics is Poland’s largest private defense company and supplies the Polish army. Its work includes digital command systems, automated fire-control systems, communications equipment and unmanned attack systems. The Skarzysko-Kamienna facility produces key drone components.

Poland, a European Union and NATO member, strongly supports Ukraine after Russia’s invasion and says it also feels threatened by Moscow. The government has accused Russian and Belarusian intelligence services of sending numerous agents into Poland to carry out acts of sabotage.

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There is no doubt that it was deliberate arson.