Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has described as an “unprecedented act of sabotage” an explosion along a section of a railway line used for transporting supplies to Ukraine.
The explosion occurred between Warsaw and Lublin to the south-east on Sunday. Visiting the cite of the incident 97km from Warsaw, near the village of Mika, Tusk said the damage done to the railway tracks was deliberate and likely aimed at blowing up the train. He described the attack as “an attempt to destabilise and destroy railway infrastructure, which could have led to a rail disaster”. “Unfortunately, there is no doubt that we are dealing with an act of sabotage. Fortunately, there was no tragedy, but the matter is nonetheless very serious,” Tusk said on Monday, after visiting the scene 97km from Warsaw, near the village of Mika.
Tusk said invetigatio was launched into the explosion in the railway as well as other incident involving rail sabotage over the weekend. “Just like in previous cases of this kind, we will catch the perpetrators, regardless of who their backers are,” he said.
"These events show that the people behind it have decided to begin a new phase of threatening the railway infrastructure," Special Services Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said. It should be noted that Poland’s railway network is an important the military supply lines for neighbouring Ukraine as well as a route for the movement of the civilians. Russia denies involvement in such attacks.
