A railway line linking Warsaw to southeastern Poland was damaged by an explosion that Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an “unprecedented act of sabotage”.
Tusk said the line is “crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine.”
Poland’s defence chief Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz reported that the Polish army would examine 120 kilometres of the Warsaw-Lublin-Hrubieszów line, which links the capital to Ukraine by rail and road.
A train driver on the line between the capital Warsaw and Lublin reported track irregularities. Inspections uncovered that there was damage to a section of track near the village of Mika.
Two Ukrainian suspects working for Russia have been identified in what the Polish state considers a highly serious attack.
The suspects are thought to have come in from Belarus for the attack and returned back to Belarus.
Luckily, no injuries were reported.
“The adversary has started preparations for war. They are building a certain environment here to bring about an undermining of public confidence in the government, bodies such as the armed forces and the police,” said Polish army’s Chief of the General Staff, General Wiesław Kukuła
General Kukuła went on to say that the unnamed enemy is creating “conditions that are convenient for the potential conduct of aggression on Polish territory.”
This follows a wave of arson, sabotage and cyberattacks in Poland and other European countries in recent months.
In a post on X, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that “threats to our security are real and growing.”
“Europe must urgently boost capacity to protect our skies and our infrastructure,” she said.
A second train was damaged separately on Sunday. No injuries wrecked reported, but the train stopped because the overhead electrical cables that powered the train were damaged.
“Russia is accused of all manifestations of the hybrid and direct war that is taking place,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state television reporter.
“In Poland, let’s say, everyone is trying to run ahead of the European locomotive in this regard. And Russophobia, of course, is flourishing there,” he went on.
One month ago, a series of panels titled “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” opened to the public on Moscow streets.
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