MINSK, September 4. /TASS/. The Belarusian State Security Committee detained a Polish spy who was gathering information about the upcoming Belarus-Russia Zapad 2025 military exercises, the Belarus 1 TV channel reported.

According to the channel, Polish citizen Grzegorz Gavel was detained in the city of Lepel in the Vitebsk Region. He was carrying an eight-page A4 printout that turned out to be a classified document on the Zapad 2025 drills.

It was ascertained that the man resides in Krakow, and was born in 1998. Gavel confessed that he had been instructed to "obtain information on the Zapad 2025 military exercises." Belarusian counterintelligence officers detained the foreigner as soon as he received the classified document. A criminal case has been opened. An investigation is underway.

The Pole had dollars, euros, Belarusian rubles, Bulgarian leva, and Polish zlotys with him. He also had a SIM card that someone else bought and gave to him. It was registered to another person.

According to the TV channel, there is irrefutable evidence of the Polish citizen’s espionage activities. A few minutes before his arrest, he obtained a secret military document. Gavel had established contact with a Belarusian citizen through social networks and offered to cooperate with him in the interests of Polish special services. This cooperation consisted of covertly collecting and providing classified information about the command structure and military counterintelligence officers.

The man passed the information he obtained to the Polish security services. Specifically, Gavel collected classified information about Belarusian military facilities for the Polish Internal Security Agency. In exchange for the information he needed, Gavel promised to pay the Belarusian citizen money every month.