According to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, two Ukrainian nationals who had previously worked for Russian intelligence have been named as the culprits in two sabotage incidents on Poland’s train system.
Tusk informed parliament that one person had already been found guilty in absentia of sabotage in Ukraine. He described it as a “unprecedented act of sabotage” on Monday after visiting the site of an explosion in Mika, southeast of Warsaw, that damaged the railway line leading to the Ukrainian border over the weekend.
A crowded train was forced to stop abruptly on Monday due to another incident near Pulawy, and overhead lines were discovered to have been damaged. The Kremlin dismissed reports of Russian involvement.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, stated: “It would have been really strange, if Russia hadn’t been blamed first. He told Russia’s state-run media, Russia is accused of all acts of hybrid and direct war… in Poland,” adding that “Russophobia is certainly rampant there.
At first, Polish authorities had stated that it was highly likely that a “foreign service” had ordered the two acts of sabotage on the Warsaw-Lublin railway line. Then, on Tuesday, a representative for Poland’s minister of special services stated that “everything points to them being Russian special services.
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