{"id":579559,"date":"2025-11-19T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579559\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:00:28","slug":"explosion-on-rail-line-initiated-by-russian-secret-services-polish-government-says-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579559\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion on rail line &#8216;initiated by Russian secret services&#8217;, Polish government says | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion on a Polish railway line used to deliver aid to Ukraine was &#8220;initiated by Russian secret services&#8221;, a Polish government official has said.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence suggests the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/railway-bombing-an-unprecedented-act-of-sabotage-polands-pm-says-13471586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>blast over the weekend<\/strong><\/a> was &#8220;initiated by the Russian secret services&#8221;, Jacek Dobrzy\u0144ski, the spokesman for Poland&#8217;s security services minister, said after a meeting of the National Security Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/donald-tusk-6455\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polish prime minister<\/a> <\/strong>has said the two people responsible are Ukrainian, that they collaborated with Russian intelligence, have left Poland and are now in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>In what Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an &#8220;unprecedented act of sabotage&#8221;, a segment of a rail line linking Poland&#8217;s capital, Warsaw, to the border with Ukraine was blown up over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Another segment further south was also damaged in what officials say was likely sabotage as well.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister has announced he will introduce a higher threat level on certain railway lines and use the<br \/>military to protect key infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The third tier threat level will apply to certain railway lines, while the rest of the country will remain under the second alert level.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/skynews-mika-poland_7084078.png\"   alt=\"A map showing the location of Mika between Warsaw and Lublin.\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        A map showing the location of Mika between Warsaw and Lublin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The investigation develops <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the planned use of a camera found near the blast site and army patrols have been sent to check railways and key infrastructure in the east of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Polish prosecutors have begun an investigation into &#8220;acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature&#8221; for the benefit of foreign intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/skynews-donald-tusk-poland_7084036.jpg\"   alt=\"Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the act an &quot;unprecedented act of sabotage&quot;.\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the act an &#8220;unprecedented act of sabotage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Polish prosecutors have initiated an investigation into &#8220;acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature&#8221; directed against railway infrastructure and committed for the benefit of foreign intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Both incidents took place on the Warsaw-Lublin line.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the actions could have resulted in disaster and the large-scale loss of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/why-uks-undersea-cables-are-vulnerable-and-putin-has-pretty-good-map-of-where-they-are-13431588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Should the UK be worried about Russian sabotage?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ex-mi5-chief-says-those-who-think-uk-already-at-war-with-russia-may-be-right-13440392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ex-MI5 chief: those who think UK already at war with Russia may be right<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first incident, an explosion damaged the tracks near the village of Mika, about 60 miles south-east of Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>In a second incident, power lines were destroyed in the area of Pu\u0142awy, about 30 miles from Lublin.<\/p>\n<p>Trains carrying passengers were forced to stop at both locations, but no one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Poland&#8217;s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said: &#8220;The explosion was most likely intended to blow up the train.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion on a Polish railway line used to deliver aid to Ukraine was &#8220;initiated by Russian secret&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-579559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115574134170051028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}