A fire damaged a Starlink ground station near Wola Krobowska, south of Warsaw, prompting Polish police and security officers to investigate. Digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said the blaze was deliberate and described it as an attack on critical telecommunications infrastructure.
The logo identifies the satellite communications service at the center of the investigation near Warsaw.
A ground station links a satellite network to cables and other systems on the ground. According to the minister, the facility is owned by Polish state operator Exatel and carries internet traffic through Poland and onward to Ukraine, where Starlink connections have played an important role. Other internet providers also use the site, so any disruption could have consequences beyond Starlink users.
The diagram illustrates the satellite network connected to ground infrastructure described in the article.
Gawkowski said the method appeared Russian and called the incident part of hybrid warfare, but he also acknowledged that Russian responsibility could not yet be confirmed. A Polish security-services spokesman said arson was indicated, while stressing that the cause and motive remained under investigation. The justice minister said sabotage was being considered but not established.
That distinction matters: evidence of deliberate ignition would not, by itself, identify who ordered or carried out the attack. A March report cited by the same publisher said Poland accounted for 31 of 151 suspected Russian-linked sabotage incidents recorded across Europe from February 2022 to February 2026, but that broader pattern does not prove responsibility for this fire.
The immediate question is how much service the damaged facility affected and whether users were rerouted through other infrastructure. The supplied material does not report the outage’s scale, duration, physical damage, or investigation findings, so those consequences—and any attribution—remain uncertain.