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Two Ukrainians with links to Russian intelligence services are responsible for the sabotage of a key train line for sending military aid to kyiv. This was announced this Tuesday by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in a parliamentary appearance, revealing that the suspects managed to flee across the border with 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 incident occurred in the early hours of last Saturday, when a cable-activated explosive device damaged the tracks of 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.
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 a million.”
“These acts of sabotage and the actions of Russian services throughout Europe, not only in Poland, are unfortunately gaining strength. We are facing an 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 55 people have so far been arrested for planning or executing sabotage. In some cases it has been confirmed that they were following instructions from Moscow.
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