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Poland says fire at Starlink station is sabotage as Denmark warns of rising Russian threat

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A fire at a Starlink satellite station in central Poland was a deliberate "act of sabotage", a government minister has said.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said the fire in the Masovian Voivodeship province was "deliberately designed to disable the station... disrupting internet access for various institutions, including the Ukrainian army".

He told Polish public broadcaster TVP Info an investigation was ongoing but "many indications suggest" the attack fits into a "new Russian doctrine of attack". The Kremlin has not commented.

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