Poland suggests Russia is behind railway blast on Ukraine delivery line
WARSAW, Poland — A government spokesman announced on Tuesday that there is evidence suggesting the Russian secret services may have ordered the blowing up of a railway line in Poland over the weekend.
According to Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesman for Poland’s security services minister, “Everything indicates” that the rail incident was “initiated by the Russian secret services.” This statement was reported by the Polish Press Agency, or PAP.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk described the blowing up of a segment of a rail line linking Warsaw to the border with Ukraine as an “unprecedented act of sabotage.” Another segment further south was also damaged in what officials believe was likely sabotage.
The affected rail line was being used to transport aid to Ukraine, as confirmed by Polish officials.
After a meeting of the governmental National Security Committee, Dobrzyński spoke to the media on Tuesday morning. The meeting included military commanders, heads of the intelligence services, and a representative of the president. The defense minister stated that army patrols have been deployed to ensure the safety of railways and other key infrastructure in the eastern part of the country.
Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into “acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature” targeting railway infrastructure and allegedly carried out for the benefit of foreign intelligence.
Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz mentioned on Tuesday that authorities are looking into the discovery of a camera near the damaged tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin route.
The incidents involved an explosion damaging the tracks near the village of Mika, as well as power lines being destroyed in the Puławy area. Trains carrying passengers were halted at both locations, although no injuries were reported.
“The explosion was most likely intended to blow up the train,” Tusk stated on Monday regarding the Mika incident.
