Train services resume on damaged railway section in Poland after sabotage

Train services resumed on the night of 17-18 November on a railway track in Poland that had been damaged as a result of sabotage.

Source: Dariusz Klimczak, Head of Poland's Infrastructure Department, quoted by Polish news portal RMF24, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Traffic on both tracks was restored on the Sobolew-Życzyn section in Mazovia on the night of 17-18 November upon completion of repairs to the track damaged as a result of the sabotage.

"After the repair of the track that was damaged as a result of sabotage, double-track traffic on the Sobolew-Życzyn section was restored at 00:21," Klimczak stated.

Background:

• On the evening of 17 November, after a series of incidents on the railway in Poland, the prosecutor's office launched an investigation into acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature committed in the interests of a foreign intelligence service.
• The investigation concerns damage caused between 15 and 17 November to the infrastructure of railway line No. 7 on the Warszawa Wschodnia-Dorohusk route, including damage caused by explosive materials to tracks near the village of Mika and damage to tracks near the village of Gołąb.
• Proceedings have been initiated on the grounds of a crime punishable by life imprisonment.
• The Warsaw-Lublin railway section, which was affected by the sabotage actions, is of strategic importance for aid to Ukraine.
• Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has suggested that Russia may have been involved in the sabotage incidents on the Polish railway and has offered Warsaw assistance with the investigation.

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