\u201cThis is a very dangerous phase of escalation and we should address it really seriously because we are minutes from big casualties here,\u201d said Budrys, who will present his concerns his counterparts at Thursday\u2019s Foreign Affairs Council. \u201cIf it would be successful, these operations, this sabotage that was conducted in Poland, we would be talking in a different environment, with dead people as a consequence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski will give ministers an update during the session in Brussels, as an investigation gets underway into the suspected railway sabotage. Warsaw said Tuesday that military-grade C-4 explosives had been used<\/a> in what appeared to be an unsuccessful attempt to derail a train and film the ensuing carnage. It suspects two Ukrainian nationals working for Russia who have fled to Belarus.<\/p>\n Despite the Polish incident, Budrys said the scope of the Kremlin\u2019s actions is far wider. \u201cEveryone thinks that on the eastern front line it is always more intense \u2014 it is not \u2014 when you count the real cases of sabotage elsewhere in continental Europe, there were more than there were in the Baltics and in Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n Suspicious drones have been reported across the EU, sparking alerts from Copenhagen to Belgium, while hundreds of incidents have been probed as potential efforts to destabilize countries and intimidate the public. <\/p>\n Globsec, a Prague-based think tank,\u00a0calculated<\/a>\u00a0there were more than 110 acts of\u00a0sabotage and attempted attacks carried out in Europe between January and July, mainly in Poland and France, by people with links to Russia.<\/p>\n