The goal of the suspects was to cause a train crash, the Polish prime minister has said<\/p>\n
Two Ukrainians have been identified as the suspected perpetrators behind two\u00a0acts of sabotage targeting\u00a0a railway line between Warsaw and Lublin on Monday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told\u00a0the parliament on Tuesday. According to him, the suspects sought to provoke a train crash.
\nThe prime minsiter accused the suspects of working \u201cwith the Russian intelligence for a long time.\u201d According to Tusk, both alleged perpetrators fled to Belarus after the incidents.<\/p>\n
A military-grade C4 explosive charge was used in a least one of the incidents,\u00a0Tusk said, adding that a 300-meter-long cable was used to detonate it. The National Prosecutor\u2019s Office also confirmed that a cable \u201cthat was most likely used to set off the explosive\u201d was discovered.
\nAnother incident involved a steel clamp on a track to cause a derailment, Tusk said. The alleged perpetrators also left a smartphone with a power bank at the scene to record a potential incident, he added.
\nThe prime minister called the two incidents \u201cthe most serious\u201d security situation over the past years. \u201cA certain line has been crossed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Kiev false-flag provocation could lead to World War 3 \u2013 Zakharova<\/p>\n
Warsaw\u2019s statements show that Russophobia is \u201cflourishing\u201d in Poland, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on the developments on Tuesday. It would be \u201csurprising if they had not accused Russia\u201d of being behind the incident, he added.
\nPeskov went on to say that it\u2019s not the first time the Ukrainians have been suspected of \u201cacts of sabotage and terrorism\u201d within Western nations. Kiev\u2019s backers \u201cfail to put two and two together,\u201d he argued, warning that the West is \u201cplaying with fire\u201d and could face \u201cdire consequences\u201d if it continues to do so.
\nThe C4-like explosives were originally developed by the British during World War II and reintroduced as Composition C family by the US military. The C4 variant was developed in the US in 1950s. Russia does not produce C4 explosives and relies on its own types of plastic explosives known as PVV\u00a0family that were developed back in the USSR.
\nIn September, Moscow warned that Kiev could be planning false-flag operations in Romania or Poland to frame Russia for them. The attacks could escalate into a third world war, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned at the time, citing reports in Hungarian media alleging that Ukraine intended to stage acts of sabotage in neighboring NATO nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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