{"id":440252,"date":"2025-11-18T17:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/11\/18\/per-il-premier-tusk-gli-incidenti-sulle-ferrovie-polacche-sono-sabotaggi-nel-mirino-i-servizi-russi\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:08:53","slug":"for-prime-minister-tusk-incidents-on-polish-railways-are-sabotage-russian-services-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/11\/18\/for-prime-minister-tusk-incidents-on-polish-railways-are-sabotage-russian-services-in-the-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"For Prime Minister Tusk, incidents on Polish railways are “sabotage”. Russian services in the crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The accidents on<\/strong> Polish railway lines<\/strong> are undoubtedly “acts of sabotage<\/strong>“. The prime minister, Donald Tusk<\/strong>, and the rest of the government are convinced of this. Speaking today (18 November) to the Sejm, the lower house of the parliament in Warsaw, the premier said that the investigating authorities have identified two suspects<\/strong> for what they believe are foreign-orchestrated attacks<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

They are two Ukrainian citizens<\/strong> who, according to Polish services, have been collaborating with Russia<\/strong> for some time. According to Tusk, who spoke of an “unprecedented act of sabotage<\/strong>“, the two men\u2014whose identities he did not disclose\u2014allegedly entered Poland via Belarus<\/strong>, where they escaped again following the attacks. One of the two already had a court-issued conviction for sabotage<\/strong> <\/span>in Lviv, Ukraine. <\/p>\n

A meeting of the government’s National Security Committee<\/strong> was held this morning, also attended by military commanders and intelligence chiefs. Jacek Dobrzy\u0144ski<\/strong>, spokesman for the Ministry of Security, said at the end of the meeting that, based on the evidence gathered so far, everything suggests that the incident was “provoked by Russian intelligence services<\/strong>.” According to Tusk, “the explosion was most likely intended to blow up the train<\/strong>” that was travelling in the area.<\/p>\n

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (photo: Wojtek Radwanski\/AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Last weekend, two <\/strong>separate accidents<\/strong> occurred on<\/span> the Polish railway network. The most serious, which has received the most media attention in recent days, occurred on Sunday (16 November) along the section between Warsaw and Lublin. An explosion damaged the tracks<\/strong> at the height of the village of Mika<\/strong>, a hundred kilometres south-east of the capital. <\/p>\n

The railway line in question continues to Lviv and is one of the main arteries<\/strong> along<\/span> which aid destined for Ukraine<\/strong>, both humanitarian and military, travels. For this reason, too, everyone in Warsaw is (almost) convinced that Moscow had a hand in the attacks. The Kremlin, this reasoning goes, would have every interest in discouraging Polish solidarity<\/strong> with Kyiv’s resistance<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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In the other accident, which occurred on Saturday (15 November), electrical installations<\/strong> were damaged along another section of the same railway line, some fifty kilometres further south, near Pu\u0142awy<\/strong>. Passenger trains were forced to stop at both locations, but there were no injuries<\/strong>. The damage was repaired. <\/p>\n

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Both incidents posed “an immediate danger of a land traffic disaster<\/strong>, threatening the lives and safety of many people and property on a large scale,” the prosecutors conducting the investigation emphasised. The military has been instructed to verify the safety of railways and other critical infrastructure<\/strong> in the eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n

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Warsaw intelligence suspects two Ukrainian citizens, who allegedly collaborated with the Kremlin, of being responsible for the weekend attacks. Strengthened security along the eastern border with Ukraine and Belarus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":440242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30809,25712],"tags":[25802,32642,25948,25952,31207],"class_list":["post-440252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-security","category-general-news","tag-attentati-ferrovie","tag-donald-tusk-one-two","tag-poland-and","tag-sabotage-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440253,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440252\/revisions\/440253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}