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Evidence suggests the Russian concealed services look to person ordered the blowing up of a railway enactment successful Poland implicit the weekend, a authorities spokesperson said connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025).
“Everything indicates” that the obstruction incidental was “initiated by the Russian concealed services,” Jacek Dobrzynski, the spokesperson for Poland’s information services minister, said connected Tuesday greeting (November 18), according to the Polish Press Agency, oregon PAP.
In what Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an “unprecedented enactment of sabotage,” a conception of a obstruction enactment linking Poland’s capital, Warsaw, to the borderline with Ukraine was blown up implicit the weekend. Another conception further southbound was besides damaged successful what officials accidental was apt sabotage arsenic well.
That obstruction enactment is being utilized to transport assistance to Ukraine, Polish officials said.
Mr. Dobrzynski was speaking to the media aft a gathering of the governmental National Security Committee, which took spot connected Tuesday greeting (November 18) with the information of subject commanders, heads of the quality services and a typical of the president. Army patrols person been sent to cheque the information of railways and different cardinal infrastructure successful the eastbound of the country, the defence curate said.
Polish prosecutors person initiated an probe into “acts of sabotage of a violent nature” directed against railway infrastructure and committed for the payment of overseas intelligence.
“These actions brought astir an contiguous information of a onshore postulation disaster, threatening the lives and wellness of galore radical and spot connected a ample scale,” prosecutors said successful a statement.
Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told Radio Zet connected Tuesday (November 18) that authorities were investigating the planned usage of a camera recovered adjacent the damaged tracks connected the Warsaw-Lublin route.
In the archetypal incident, an detonation damaged the tracks adjacent the colony of Mika, astir 100 km (60 miles) southeast of Warsaw and, successful a abstracted incident, powerfulness lines were destroyed successful the country of Pulawy, astir 50 km (30 miles) from Lublin. Trains carrying passengers were forced to halt astatine some locations, but nary 1 was hurt.
“The detonation was astir apt intended to stroke up the train,” Mr. Tusk said connected Monday (November 17) successful notation to the Mika incident.
