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"Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, has described last weekend’s
sabotage attack on Poland’s rail system as “an act of state terrorism” ordered
by Russia, as he announced that Poland was closing the last remaining Russian
consulate in the country.
“The clear intention was to cause human casualties,” he said of the weekend
bomb attack.
The Polish security services said they were in the process of arresting several
people linked to the incident.
“They are on the trail of the principals; they are on the trail of the
perpetrators … the first arrests are now taking place,” the spokesperson Jacek
Dobrzyński said on Wednesday morning. He said later that four people had been
arrested.
On Tuesday, the prime minister, Donald Tusk, said authorities had identified
two Ukrainian citizens involved in the attack, who had arrived in Poland from
Belarus and left soon after placing explosive devices on the rail tracks over
the weekend.
Tusk said Poland believed the men were cooperating with Russia’s security
services and one had been arrested previously for sabotage in Ukraine. The pair
are reportedly not among those who have been arrested.
The blast damaged rail tracks near the town of Mika, on a rail line linking
Warsaw and eastern Poland, a key logistics route towards the border with
Ukraine. There were no casualties, as the gap in the tracks was spotted by a
regional train driver who alerted authorities. In a separate incident, power
cables were destroyed along a nearby section of track.
Sikorski said he was ordering the closure of the Gdańsk consulate “though it
will not be our full response” to the attack. He did not specify what other
measures Poland might take. Poland has closed two other Russian consulates, in
Kraków and Poznan, in recent years. The embassy in Warsaw remains open."
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