Fire at Starlink station in central Poland was ‘sabotage,’ digital affairs minister says

A fire that broke out at a Starlink satellite communications station in central Poland overnight is being called an act of “sabotage,” the country’s digital affairs minister said on Thursday.

“This act of sabotage was deliberately designed to disable the station…disrupting internet access for various institutions, including the Ukrainian army,” Krzysztof Gawkowski told Polish public broadcaster TVP Info, adding that the fire broke out late on Wednesday and that the station in Wola Krobowska was still operational.

“There is much to suggest that we are dealing with an element of the next phase of hybrid warfare,” he added.

The station, owned by state-owned telecommunications company Exatel, is used, among other things, to transmit internet traffic through Poland, including to Ukraine, according to the minister.

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