Moscow accuses Warsaw of Russophobia after Tusk links rail blast to Russia
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's claim that the recent acts of sabotage on a railway line in eastern Poland were incited by Russian special services spurred the Kremlin to accuse the Polish government of Russophobia.
"Russia is accused of all manifestations of the hybrid and direct war that is taking place," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state television reporter on Tuesday. "In Poland, let's say, everyone is trying to run ahead of the European locomotive in this regard. And Russophobia, of course, is flourishing there."
Two railway sabotage incidents shook Poland over the weekend along the railway line connecting Warsaw with the Dorohusk station on the border with Ukraine, which Tusk called on Monday an "unprecedented act of sabotage".
On Sunday, a railway track near the Mika station in the central Mazowieckie province was destroyed by what was later reported to have been an explosion.
On the same day, a train carrying 475 passengers was forced to stop suddenly due to damaged railway infrastructure near the Golab station nearby the town of Pulawy, eastern Lubelskie province.
Tusk told the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, on Tuesday that the two identified perpetrators are "Ukrainian citizens who have been cooperating with the Russian services for a long time."
After the operation, they feld Poland for Belarus.
Tusk also said that Russian services have been behind all recent cases of sabotage in Poland and added that 55 suspects of sabotage have been detained so far and 23 of them arrested. (PAP)
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