'We will get you all!': Poland blames Russia for causing massive shopping centre fire in Warsaw last year
Poland has accused Russia of arson over huge shopping centre fire in Warsaw last year.
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Writing on X, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said: "We now know for sure that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special services.
"Some of the perpetrators have already been detained, all the others are identified and searched for.
"We will get you all!"
Russia has not responded to the allegations but has previously denied accusations of sabotage in Europe.
The fire in May 2024 destroyed 1,400 small businesses.
Many of the staff were members of the Vietnamese community in the Polish capital.
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We now know for sure that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special services. Some of the perpetrators have already been detained, all the others are identified and searched for. We will get you all!
— Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) May 11, 2025
Poland carried out an investigation into the arson - which took a year - and has now concluded the fire was orchestrated by an unnamed individual in Russia.
A joint statement from Poland's justice and interior ministers said the actions of those drained were "organised and directed by a specific person residing in the Russian Federation."
The two ministers said they were working with Lithuania to find "where some of the perpetrators also carried out acts of diversion".
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Poland has detained and convicted several people linked to sabotage and working for Russian intelligence services.
According to officials in Poland, the attacks form part of a "hybrid war" sparked by Moscow.
Nato also believes Russia may be waging "hybrid warfare" in Europe with the alleged aim of punishing or deterring nations in the West from continuing their military support for Ukraine.
Russia has denied these allegations.
in March, prosecutors in Lithuania accused military intelligence in Russia over being behind an arson attack on an Ikea branch in the capital of Vilnius last year. Two Ukrainian suspects were arrested.
Tusk said Lithuania had confirmed Warsaw's "suspicions that [those] responsible for setting fires to shopping centres in Vilnius and Warsaw are the Russian secret services."
