The Kremlin is not surprised that Warsaw has rushed to accuse Russia of being behind a recent act of sabotage at a Polish railway, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
"It would have been strange if Russia wasn't the first one they pointed the finger at," he told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin. "Russia is always blamed for every manifestation of the hybrid and direct war that is unfolding. In Poland, so to say, they are trying to ride past the European hounds. I mean that Russophobia is flourishing there."
On the morning of November 16, a train driver discovered damage to the railway tracks leading to the Dorohusk border crossing with Ukraine in the capital’s Masovian Voivodeship. Traffic was halted, and no one was injured as a result. After visiting the site of the incident on November 17, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the rails were damaged as a result of sabotage, calling the incident an act of sabotage. In turn, the Polish Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case regarding the sabotage.
Later, two Ukrainian national were identified as perpetrators of two acts of sabotage at a railway in Poland. Speaking at the Sejm (the lower house of the parliament) on November 18, Tusk said that these men allegedly collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
One of the suspects was previously involved in a criminal case regarding sabotage in Lvov, and the other lived in Donbass and "worked in a prosecutor's office."
Both fled Poland through a checkpoint in Terespol on the Belarusian border, Tusk claimed.[TASS]
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Two Ukrainian citizens who long worked for Russian intelligence have been identified as the suspects behind two acts of sabotage on Poland's rail network, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
ReplyDeleteOne suspect had already been convicted in absentia of acts of sabotage in Ukraine, Tusk told parliament.
On Monday, he visited the scene of an explosion near Mika, south-east of Warsaw, which damaged the railway line leading to the Ukrainian border at the weekend, and called it an "unprecedented act of sabotage".
Another incident down the line near Pulawy on Monday forced a packed train to stop suddenly and damage was found to overhead cables.
The Kremlin brushed off suggestions of Russian involvement.
Взрыв на железной дороге в Польше, ведущей на Украину, совершили украинцы, заявил польский премьер Туск.
ReplyDeleteОн утверждает, что они долгое время «сотрудничали с российскими спецслужбами». Детали не уточнил. По его словам, обоим мужчинам удалось покинуть польскую территорию через КПП на границе с Белоруссией в Тересполе. Сообщается, что один из них был ранее осужден во Львове за диверсии на территории Украины.
By covering for Ukrainians involved in sabotage, the Poles are playing with fire, the consequences of which could be grave, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.
ReplyDelete"Let's remember the Nord Streams, the explosions, the Ukrainians. The Poles detain a suspect in the case. [There is] a German extradition demand. What do the Poles do? They don't give him away. They got tangled up, they lost their way in broad daylight. And here, if they continue to play with fire like this, then, of course, they will have to face very severe consequences," Peskov said, commenting on the sabotage on the railway in Poland, in which Ukrainian citizens have been implicated.