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Russia The main suspect in Monday’s bombing on the Warsaw to Lublin railway line, the main route poland To ukraine,

Poland’s security ministry said “everything points to Russian sabotage” after the explosion on the railway and another attack in which rails on the same route were cut.

Russia has long been accused of interfering in European affairs. But the issue came into focus again in September, when about two dozen drones crossed the border poland between one Massive Russian drone attack on UkraineA few days later, jets breached Estonia, airfield As Russia concludes major exercises in Belarus.

later activity near the border Europeans have been forced to close airports and borders, causing major disruption and exposing vulnerabilities. Businesses have responded with a wave of military and civilian innovations to protect the continent against the threats of modern warfare.

The MT Orinda crashed while unloading liquefied petroleum gas off a Ukrainian border town near Romania, causing a fire with more than a dozen workers on board.

Ukraine plans to seek about $44 billion (£33 billion) from Russia for damages linked to increased climate-warming emissions from the ongoing war, a government minister said.

The move marks the first time that a country is claiming damages for such an increase in emissions, which include fossil fuels used in fighting wars, cement and steel and the destruction of trees through resulting fires.

“Water, land and forests have been badly damaged,” said Pavlo Kartashov, the country’s deputy minister of economy, environment and agriculture.

“We have huge amounts of excess CO2 emissions and greenhouse gases,” Kartashov told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

Britain will build a network of new munitions factories to boost its combat readiness, aiming to restore domestic production of military explosives for the first time in almost two decades.

Defense Secretary John Healey is due to announce plans for new potential sites today and confirm that construction of the first factory is expected to start next year.

These factories would produce munitions, propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics for the British Army and provide aid for Ukraine.

At least 13 potential sites for factories have been identified and the first construction is expected to begin next year.

Earlier in June this year, the government committed an additional investment of £1.5 billion for munitions and related components.

At least two senior U.S. military officials are in Kiev today on an unannounced visit to pursue peace talks with Ukrainian officials, two people familiar with the trip said.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Chief of Staff General Randy George will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, military leaders and lawmakers from the war-torn country, Politico reported.

The two senior military officials will focus on engaging the Ukrainian leadership on the stalled peace process with Russia.

Driscoll plans to meet with Russian officials later wall street journal Reported separately.

Polish and allied aircraft were deployed early today to ensure the security of Polish airspace after Russia launched airstrikes targeting western Ukraine near Poland’s border, the NATO-member country’s armed forces said.

“Quick-reaction fighter pairs and an early warning aircraft have been deployed, and ground-based air defense and radar surveillance systems have reached the highest state of readiness,” the operational command said in a post on Twitter.

Almost all of Ukraine was under airstrike alert at 4 a.m. GMT following Ukrainian Air Force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.

Poland has identified two people responsible for an explosion on a Ukrainian railway route, the country’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

Mr Tusk said both suspects were Ukrainians who cooperated with Russian intelligence and then fled to Belarus.

The explosion on the Warsaw-Lublin line, which connects the Polish capital to the Ukrainian border, followed a wave of arson, sabotage and cyberattacks in Poland and other European countries since the start of the war in Ukraine.

“The most important information is that … we have identified those responsible for the acts of sabotage,” Tusk told lawmakers. He also said that they were Ukrainians who had cooperated with Russian intelligence “for a long time.”

“In both cases we are confident that the attempts to blow up the railway and the violation of railway infrastructure were deliberate and were intended to cause railway traffic havoc,” he said.

Warsaw has said Poland has become one of Moscow’s biggest targets because of its role as a hub of aid to Kiev.

Russia’s civil aviation authority Rosaviatsiya said it was temporarily grounding flights at Krasnodar airport in southern Russia early today.

Unofficial Russian and Ukrainian Telegram news channels reported a series of explosions across the Krasnodar region, which is home to the Novorossiysk oil terminal and the Ilsky refinery.

Rosaviatsia said the services were temporarily suspended to ensure flight safety.