Russia breaks silence on ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’ as WW3 fears spiral

Russia broke its silence on allegations it carried out an act of sabotage against a major NATO member. On Monday, Poland suggested it believed Moscow was behind an attack on railway tracks running between Warsaw and Lubin.

The incident, which happened on Sunday, November 16, saw an explosion on the line which leads to the Ukrainian border and is key to delivering aid to the war-torn nation. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk condemned Sunday’s incident as an “unprecedented act of sabotage” targeting the country’s citizens.

Andrei Ordash, Chargé d’Affaires of Russia in Poland, told Newsweek in a statement, originally in Russian, that the embassy in Warsaw “generally does not comment on the various absurd statements made by the Polish authorities, whose aim is to stoke Russophobia and war hysteria within Polish society.”

Mr Tusk emphasised that the rail line targeted in the attack is “crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine.”

Addressing the Polish parliament on Tuesday, he revealed that two individuals suspected of acting on behalf of Russian intelligence were allegedly responsible for the sabotage.

According to Mr Tusk, the suspects are Ukrainian nationals who have since fled into Belarus, a close ally of Moscow.

An explosion struck the railway tracks near the village of Mika, located roughly 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Warsaw, causing significant disruption to services. In a separate attack, power lines were destroyed in the Puławy area, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Lublin.

Passenger trains were forced to halt at both sites as authorities responded to the damage, though fortunately no injuries were reported. The twin incidents highlight the scale of the sabotage, targeting critical infrastructure and interrupting rail traffic across two key routes.

According to the Polish Press Agency, or PAP Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesman for Poland’s security services minister, said on Tuesday morning: “Everything indicates” that the rail bombing was “initiated by the Russian secret services.”