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An explosion that damaged a Polish railway track along the way ukraine The Polish minister said on Monday that it was the work of a “foreign state”.
Tomasz Szymoniak, Poland’s security services minister, said the attack on a section of track near the village of Mika marked “a new stage of threat to the railway infrastructure”.
Earlier on Monday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the track “It is extremely important to provide aid to Ukraineand termed the attack an “act of sabotage”.
Local police said a train driver had reported damage to the railway line on Sunday. The damaged part was about 80 miles from the Polish-Ukrainian border.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Mr Simoniak told reporters, “We are dealing with [intelligence] The services of a foreign state, not a gang of scrap metal thieves.”
Mr Tusk vowed to hold those responsible for the incident, which he said could have ended in tragedy. Officials said there were two passengers and several employees on board the train but no injuries were reported.
bang on warsaw-Lublin line is as follows a Wave of arson, sabotage and cyber attacks which has become a hit poland and other European countries since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
Warsaw has held Russia responsible in the past and said Poland has become one of Moscow’s biggest targets because of its role as a hub of aid to Kiev. Russia has repeatedly denied being responsible for acts of subversion.
Mr Tusk insisted on Monday, without identifying a suspect, that “like previous cases like this, we will catch the perpetrators, no matter who their supporters are”.
In a video address, he said that this route was used to deliver weapons to Ukraine.
He called the incident “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens”, and assured that an investigation was underway.
Defense Minister Władysław Kosyniak-Kamycz said the military was inspecting a 120 km (74.6 mi) track leading to the Ukrainian border.
Warsaw said in October that Poland and Romania had detained eight people suspected of planning sabotage on behalf of Russia.
Lublin police also reported on Sunday evening that a passenger train carrying 475 passengers had suddenly stopped en route from Świnoujście to Rzeszow.
Windows of one coach were reportedly broken, possibly due to a damaged traction line, he said.
The reason was not immediately clear. No one was injured in the incident.