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Two Ukrainians with ties to the Russian intelligence services are responsible for sabotage of a key train line for sending military aid to kyiv. This was announced this Tuesday by the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in a parliamentary appearance, revealing that the suspects entered and managed to flee across the border into Belarus. One of them had already been tried in absentia for similar actions by a Lviv court.
The Polish president, given this situation, has made the decision to raise the alert level in the face of “terrorist threats” in certain areas of the country. In addition, it has ordered the deployment of 400 members of the Territorial Defense Forces to inspect the rails and critical railway infrastructure and thus prevent new attacks.
Tusk denounced during his speech that the sabotage “is unprecedented” and that “perhaps it is the most serious since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine.” Furthermore, he has recognized that the consequences of the attack could have been much more serious if it had not been for the poor execution of the suspects. The Kremlin has dismissed the accusations as “Russophobia”.
The incident occurred in the early hours of last Saturday, when a wire-activated explosive device damaged the tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin route near the town of Mika, in the east of the country. In addition, a “sinkhole” was detected that had diverted the rails at another point on that line, as well as several defects that affected the electrical power system and a video camera.
According to Polish media, it was a train driver who reported by telephone on Sunday morning about irregularities in the railway infrastructure and an initial inspection revealed damage to a section of the track, which led to the paralysis of rail traffic on that section.
Donald Tusk has stressed that Moscow, with this type of actions, aims to generate “disorganization, chaos, panic, speculation, uncertainty” and “incite anti-Ukrainian sentiments”. “This is particularly dangerous in countries like Poland, where we already have enough burdens to bear because Ukrainian refugees number more than one million,” he stressed.
“These acts of sabotage and the actions of Russian services throughout Europe, not only in Poland, are unfortunately gaining strength. We face escalation“, he assessed.
The Polish Minister of Special Services, Tomasz Siemoniak, recalled that Warsaw has been facing acts of sabotage carried out “on behalf of foreign services” since January 2024, events for which until now 55 people have been arrested for planning or executing sabotage. In some cases it has been confirmed that they were following instructions from Moscow.
The Polish Territorial Defense Forces deployed this Tuesday 400 troops to inspect rails and critical railway infrastructure throughout the country.
As reported by the Territorial Defense Forces in a statement, all roads, embankments, bridges, culverts, key railway crossings and critical sections of the country will be reviewed, with the help of helicopters and military drones, to “eliminate any potential threat.”
He Kremlin He has not seemed surprised by Warsaw’s accusations. “For a start, It would be strange if they didn’t accuse Russia in the first place. “Russia is accused of all manifestations of war or hybrid war,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the press.
Peskov accused Warsaw of “try to get ahead of the European locomotive” when it comes to holding Moscow responsible of all evils. “There Russophobia flourishes in its maximum splendor“, he denounced.