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Poland arrests two Belarusians suspected of spying for Minsk -statement

Poland has arrested two citizens of Belarus on charges of spying for Minsk, which could carry a 10-year prison sentence if they are found guilty, a regional prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.

Tensions have been running high between the neighbours over a migrant crisis that the European Union and Poland say was engineered by Belarus, a charge Minsk denies. The EU also accuses Minsk of supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"...the suspects heard charges of espionage on behalf of the Belarus intelligence services," a regional prosecutor's office in Poznan, west Poland, said in a statement

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