INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Poland said Friday it arrested a Russian ice hockey player on suspicion of having spied for Moscow while playing for a Polish club,
the eastern border of the Republic of Poland," Warsaw's ABW secret services said, without clarifying if all of the suspects were Russian
acts on behalf of Russian intelligence."Poland did not name the arrested man, saying only that he is a "professional athlete from a
first-division hockey club."It said he was arrested on June 11 in the southern Silesian region and had lived in Poland since 2021.Russian
state media identified the man as Maxim Sergeyev, who played for Zaglebie Sosnowiec in the southwestern Polish city of Sosnowiec.The website
charged the man with espionage and that he will remain in custody for three months.The Russian Foreign Ministry said it had expressed a
arrested Russian national will be provided with "all the necessary help."
