Polish authorities have announced that two Ukrainian citizens working with Russian intelligence were responsible for the explosion on a railway used to transport weapons to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the aim of the two people involved in the attack was to create a disaster on the railways. He said that these people have now fled from Poland to Belarus.
A few hours ago, a Polish security official told this news Associated Press Authorities are investigating whether Russia, Belarus or their proxies were linked to Sunday’s blast on the line connecting Warsaw to southeastern Poland.
On Monday, Polish Security Services Minister Tomasz Simoniak said the attack on a section of track near the village of Mika marked “a new stage in the threat to railway infrastructure”.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the route was “very important for sending aid to Ukraine” and called the attack “an act of sabotage”.
Local police said a train driver reported damage to the railway line on Sunday. The damaged section was about 80 miles from the Polish-Ukrainian border.
“We are dealing with this,” Mr. Simoniak told reporters on Monday [intelligence] The services of a foreign country and not a gang of waste thieves.”
Mr. Tusk vowed to arrest those responsible for what he said could have ended in tragedy. Two passengers and several employees were on the train, but no injuries were reported, officials said.
The explosion on the Warsaw-Lublin line follows a wave of arson, vandalism and cyber attacks that have hit Poland and other European countries since the war in Ukraine began.
Warsaw has blamed Russia in the past, saying that Poland has become one of Moscow’s biggest targets because of its role as a center for aid to Kiev. Russia has repeatedly denied responsibility for sabotage.
Mr Tusk stressed on Monday that “just like in previous cases of this kind, we will arrest the perpetrators of this crime regardless of who is behind them”, without identifying a suspect.
He added in a video address that this route is used to deliver weapons to Ukraine.
He called the incident “an unprecedented act of vandalism aimed at the security of the Polish government and its citizens” and assured that an investigation is underway.
Defense Minister Władysław Kuciniak-Kamyz said the military was inspecting a 120-kilometer (74.6-mile) stretch of road leading to the Ukrainian border.
Warsaw announced in October that Poland and Romania had detained eight people suspected of plotting sabotage on behalf of Russia.
Lublin police also reported on Sunday evening that a passenger train carrying 475 passengers stopped suddenly en route from Świnoujście to Rzeszów.
They said the windows of one of the carriages appeared to be broken, most likely due to damage to the traction line.
The cause was not immediately known. No one was injured in this incident.
