Ukrainians working for Russia suspected in railway blast, Poland says

WARSAW, Poland — Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday.

Speaking to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, Tusk said the two suspects had been collaborating with Russian secret services for a long time. He said their identities were known but could not be revealed to the public because of ongoing investigations. The pair have already left Poland.

Tusk has described the explosion on a rail line linking Poland’s capital, Warsaw, to the border with Ukraine as an “unprecedented act of sabotage.”

In a separate incident, which Polish officials are also now confirming as sabotage, power lines over another segment of the same rail line further south were also damaged.

A meeting of the governmental National Security Committee had taken place earlier on Tuesday, with the participation of military commanders, heads of the intelligence services and a representative of the president.

Army patrols have been sent to check the safety of railways and other key infrastructure in the east of the country, the defense minister said.

Polish prosecutors have initiated an investigation into “acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature” directed against railway infrastructure and committed for the benefit of foreign intelligence.

“These actions brought about an immediate danger of a land traffic disaster, threatening the lives and health of many people and property on a large scale,” prosecutors said in a statement.

In the first incident, an explosion damaged the tracks near the village of Mika, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Warsaw and, in a separate incident, power lines were destroyed in the area of Puławy, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Lublin. Trains carrying passengers were forced to stop at both locations, but no one was hurt.

“The explosion was most likely intended to blow up the train,” Tusk said on Monday in reference to the Mika incident.

The damage caused at both locations has been repaired.

波兰华沙——波兰总理唐纳德·图斯克周二表示，两名为俄罗斯工作的乌克兰公民涉嫌在周末炸毁了波兰境内的一条铁路线。

图斯克在波兰议会下院（瑟姆）发表讲话时表示，这两名嫌疑人长期以来一直与俄罗斯情报部门合作。他说，他们的身份已知，但由于调查仍在进行中，无法向公众透露。两人已离开波兰。

图斯克将连接波兰首都华沙和乌克兰边境的铁路线上的爆炸描述为“前所未有的破坏行为”。

在另一起事件中（波兰官员现在也证实这是一起蓄意破坏事件），同一条铁路线更南边一段的输电线路也遭到破坏。

周二早些时候，政府国家安全委员会召开会议，军事指挥官、情报部门负责人和总统代表参加了会议。

国防部长表示，已派出军队巡逻队检查该国东部铁路和其他重要基础设施的安全状况。

波兰检察官已对针对铁路基础设施的“恐怖主义性质的破坏行为”展开调查，这些行为是为了外国情报机构的利益而实施的。

检察官在一份声明中表示：“这些行为立即造成了陆地交通灾难的危险，对许多人的生命健康以及大规模的财产安全构成威胁。”

第一起事故中，位于华沙东南约100公里（60英里）的米卡村附近发生爆炸，导致铁轨受损；另一起事故中，位于卢布林以东约50公里（30英里）的普瓦维地区电力线路被毁。载客列车被迫在两处地点停靠，但无人受伤。

图斯克周一在谈到米卡事件时说：“爆炸很可能是为了炸毁火车。”

两处受损地点均已修复。