Polish PM condemns rail track blast as sabotage
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The news: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that a blast which damaged a major railway line between Poland and Ukraine was “an act of sabotage.”
The context: Tusk made the comments on Monday morning, one day after the traffic along the key route was halted following the blast.
“Unfortunately, the worst suspicions have been confirmed. An act of sabotage occurred on the Warsaw-Lublin line, near the village of Mika. An explosive device destroyed a section of the track. Emergency services and prosecutors are working at the site. Damage has also been found on the same line, closer to Lublin,” Tusk wrote in a post on X.
The PM did not directly attribute blame for the attack, but linked the incident to Russia's war in Ukraine.
“Blowing up the rail track on the Warsaw-Lublin route is an unprecedented act of sabotage targeting directly the security of the Polish state and its civilians. This route is also crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine. We will catch the perpetrators, whoever they are,” Tusk said in a different X post.
No one was injured in the blast on Sunday. The explosive device was found after an emergency stop by a train on Sunday when its conductor noticed damage to the track.
The source: Donald Tusk X
