Belarus has arrested a Polish national on suspicion of espionage for having documents related to forthcoming Belarusian-Russian military exercises.

Axar.az reports, citing Reuters, Poland said the move was a provocation that would receive a response.

Belta said the Polish suspect had in his possession a copy of a document outlining the Zapad-25 exercises due to take place this month. He also had Belarusian and foreign cash and a portable telephone SIM-card registered to someone else.

“There is irrefutable evidence of the Polish citizen’s espionage activities,” Belta said. “A few minutes before his arrest, he received a secret military document. All of this was captured on video.”

Belta said he had been trying to recruit the Belarusian national in his company and offered him money and small gifts.

The arrest was “another provocation by the Lukashenko regime aimed at our country,” Jacek Dobrzynski, a spokesperson for the coordinator of Poland’s special services, said on X.