{"id":188007,"date":"2025-11-19T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188007\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:03:10","slug":"two-ukrainians-working-with-russia-are-suspected-of-blowing-up-polish-railway-track-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188007\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ukrainians working with Russia are suspected of blowing up Polish railway track \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poland<\/a> has identified two people responsible for an explosion on a railway route to Ukraine<\/a>, prime minister Donald Tusk<\/a> said on Tuesday, adding that they were Ukrainians who collaborated with Russian<\/a> intelligence and that they had fled to Belarus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The blast 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.<\/p>\n

Warsaw has said Poland has become one of Moscow\u2019s biggest targets due to its role as a hub for aid to Kyiv.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important information is that … we have identified the people responsible for the acts of sabotage,\u201d Mr Tusk told politicians, adding that they were Ukrainians who had collaborated with Russian intelligence for \u201ca long time\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said their identities were known but could not be revealed to the public because of ongoing investigations. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0Poland railway blast was \u2018unprecedented act of sabotage\u2019, says Donald TuskOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Russia has repeatedly denied being responsible for acts of sabotage and on Tuesday the Kremlin dismissed accusations of involvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is accused of all manifestations of the hybrid and direct war that is taking place,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state television reporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Poland, let\u2019s say, everyone is trying to run ahead of the European locomotive in this regard. And Russophobia, of course, is flourishing there.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first incident in the village of Mika, an explosive device was detonated on the track as a freight train was passing using a device connected to it by a 300m-long cable. A certain amount of explosive that did not detonate was recovered at the scene, Mr Tusk said.<\/p>\n

He said that other trains had gone over the affected piece of track before one stopped.<\/p>\n

In a second incident near Pulawy, a steel clamp was installed on the track with the likely aim of derailing the train, Tusk said. He added that a mobile phone attached to a power bank had been set up nearby in order to record what happened.<\/p>\n

He added that one of the suspects had already been found guilty by a court in Lviv for taking part in sabotage in Ukraine, but had not been imprisoned as he was in Belarus.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoland is in constant contact with the intelligence services of allied countries, and we will do everything we can to pursue these individuals,\u201d Tusk said. \u2013 Reuters\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poland has identified two people responsible for an explosion on a railway route to Ukraine, prime minister Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[32305,9,10,32303,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,379,550,7,8,2264,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-188007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-belarus","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-donald-tusk","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-poland","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-ukraine-crisis","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}