Russian intelligence likely behind railway sabotage: Poland – Firstpost

A spokesman for Poland’s special services minister said Tuesday that everything points to Russian intelligence services carrying out sabotage on Polish railways, damaging a track on the route to Ukraine over the weekend.

These comments were the first in which an official from Poland’s security services publicly expressed doubt that Russia was behind the explosion, which Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an “unprecedented act of sabotage”.

Asked about the investigation into the incident, spokesman Jacek Dobrzynski told reporters that authorities were “securing evidence, gathering information, and verifying the information collected so far.”

He said, “You know that the people who carried out (the sabotage) – and everything indicates that these are Russian intelligence services – would very much like to know where the actions taken by the police and internal security agencies are going.”

The government held an extraordinary meeting of its National Security Committee on Tuesday morning with the participation of military commanders, service chiefs and a representative of the President to discuss the suspected attack.

The jurisdiction of the Minister of Special Services includes intelligence, counter-intelligence and anti-corruption.

(This is an agency story. Except for the headline, the story has not been updated by Firstpost staff.)