Radio Free Europe 11/18/2025
Poland suspects Russian intelligence services were behind an explosion on a major Polish railway line used to transport military goods and aid to Ukraine, an act Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an "unprecedented act of sabotage."
In the first comments where a Polish official suggested Moscow was behind the weekend attack, Jacek Dobrzynski, a spokesperson for Poland's special services minister, said on November 18 that the blast was an attempt "to destabilize" and "spread fear."
The suspects are Ukrainian nationals who collaborated with Russian intelligence and fled to Belarus, he said.
"The most important information is that...we have identified the people responsible for the acts of sabotage," Tusk said in an address to lawmakers in Warsaw.
"In both cases we are sure that the attempt to blow up the rails and the railway infrastructure violation were intentional and their aim was to cause a railway traffic catastrophe."
Tusk added Poland is raising the security alert level in some parts of the country and is developing plans for the military to protect key infrastructure, including railways.
The blast on November 17 occurred on a line running from Warsaw to the eastern Polish city of Lublin, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
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