A fire late Wednesday, Sept. 23, at an Exatel Starlink ground station in Wola Krobowska, south of Warsaw, damaged power equipment, Polish officials said; the site remained operational afterward, according to BBC News (opens in new tab), Deutsche Welle (opens in new tab), and Notes from Poland (opens in new tab).
Deputy Prime Minister and digital minister Krzysztof Gawkowski called the blaze a deliberate act of sabotage aimed at disrupting connectivity that also serves Ukrainian institutions, and said the pattern fits a Russian hybrid-warfare doctrine, the cited outlets reported. The Kremlin had not commented in Thursday packages.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk cautioned against labeling the incident sabotage without full certainty, Notes from Poland (opens in new tab) and BBC reported. Denmark’s intelligence service separately warned of a low but growing risk of limited Russian military action against NATO and escalating hybrid pressure, DW and BBC said.
The Event Log treats the fire and Polish official statements as the confirmed event, dual-attributes any Russia link to Gawkowski’s allegation pending investigation, and keeps Tusk’s caution on the record. The incident is distinct from Poland’s separately briefed report of a brief Russian Mi-8 airspace violation near Kaliningrad the same day.