People examine the positioning of the blast on railways on the Warsaw-Lublin line in Mika, Poland, on November 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters
“Everything signifies” that the rail incident was “initiated by the Russian secret companies,” Jacek Dobrzynski, the spokesman for Poland’s safety companies minister, stated on Tuesday morning (November 18), in line with the Polish Press Agency, or PAP.
In what Prime Minister Donald Tusk known as an “unprecedented act of sabotage,” a section of a rail line linking Poland’s capital, Warsaw, to the border with Ukraine was blown up over the weekend. Another section additional south was additionally broken in what officers say was doubtless sabotage as nicely.
That rail line is getting used to move support to Ukraine, Polish officers stated.
Mr. Dobrzynski was chatting with the media after a gathering of the governmental National Security Committee, which came about on Tuesday morning (November 18) with the participation of army commanders, heads of the intelligence companies and a consultant of the president. Army patrols have been despatched to test the protection of railways and different key infrastructure within the east of the nation, the defence minister stated.
Polish prosecutors have initiated an investigation into “acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature” directed towards railway infrastructure and dedicated for the advantage of overseas intelligence.
“These actions led to a right away hazard of a land site visitors catastrophe, threatening the lives and well being of many individuals and property on a big scale,” prosecutors stated in a press release.
Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz advised Radio Zet on Tuesday (November 18) that authorities had been investigating the deliberate use of a digital camera discovered close to the broken tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin route.
In the primary incident, an explosion broken the tracks close to the village of Mika, about 100 km (60 miles) southeast of Warsaw and, in a separate incident, energy strains had been destroyed within the space of Pulawy, about 50 km (30 miles) from Lublin. Trains carrying passengers had been compelled to cease at each places, however nobody was harm.
“The explosion was most definitely meant to explode the prepare,” Mr. Tusk stated on Monday (November 17) in reference to the Mika incident.
Published – November 18, 2025 11:23 pm IST

