Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected in the weekend railway explosion in Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, the Associated Press reported, BTA reported.
In a speech to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, Tusk said the two suspects had long been collaborators with Russian intelligence. He said their identities were known but could not be disclosed to the public because of the ongoing investigation. The two have already left Poland.
Tusk described the explosion on the railway line connecting the Polish capital Warsaw to the border with Ukraine as an "unprecedented act of sabotage".
Poland will introduce a higher alert level on certain railway lines and use the military to protect key infrastructure, the prime minister said on Monday, Reuters reported.
"The head of the Internal Security Agency and the interior minister asked me to introduce a third alert level for terrorist threats," Tusk told parliament. "This level will be in force for certain railway lines, while the rest of the country will be in force at the second level of alert", he added.
The Kremlin accused Poland today of succumbing to Russophobia after Warsaw blamed two Ukrainian citizens for the explosion on a railway line to Ukraine, whom the Polish side said were recruited by Russian intelligence, Reuters reported, BTA reports.
„Russia is blamed for all the manifestations of hybrid and direct warfare that are taking place“, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a reporter on Russian state television.
„In Poland, let's face it, everyone is trying to get ahead of the European locomotive on this topic. And Russophobia, of course, is flourishing there“, he added.
The explosion on the Warsaw line – Lublin, which connects the Polish capital to the Ukrainian border, followed a series of arson, sabotage and cyberattacks in Poland and other European countries since the start of the war in Ukraine, Reuters points out.