Poland blames Russia for blast on Ukraine rail line
Evidence shows that Russian secret services ordered the blowup of a railway line in Poland.
“Everything indicates that the railway incident was “initiated by the Russian secret services,” Jacek Dobrzynski, spokesman for Poland’s security services minister, said on Tuesday, according to the Polish Press Agency, or PAP.
In what Prime Minister Donald Tusk called “an unprecedented act of sabotage”, a section of the railway line connecting the Polish capital Warsaw to the Ukrainian border was blown up over the weekend.
Another section further south was also damaged by what authorities said was likely sabotage.
Polish officials said that this railway line was used to transport aid to Ukraine.
Dobrzynski spoke to the media after a meeting of the government’s National Security Committee, which took place Tuesday morning with the participation of military commanders, heads of intelligence agencies and a presidential representative.
The defense minister said army patrols were sent to check the security of railways and other important infrastructure in the east of the country.
Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into “acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature” against the railway infrastructure and carried out for the benefit of foreign intelligence.
“These actions created an immediate danger of a road traffic disaster that greatly threatened the life, health and property of a large number of people,” prosecutors said in a statement. he said.
Authorities are investigating the planned use of a camera found near damaged rails on the Warsaw-Lublin route, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told Radio Zet on Tuesday.
In the first incident, an explosion near the village of Mika, about 100 kilometers southeast of Warsaw, damaged rails, and in a separate incident, power lines were destroyed in the Puławy area, about 50 kilometers from Lublin.
Trains carrying passengers had to stop at both points, but no one was injured.
“The purpose of the explosion was most likely to blow up the train,” Tusk said about the Mika incident on Monday.
