Tusk said one of the suspects had a track record of being involved in acts of sabotage in Ukraine. The other, he added, was a resident of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.
“Polish security services and prosecutors have all personal data of these individuals, as well as recorded images of them,” Tusk said, adding Poland will ask Belarusian and Russian authorities to hand over the suspects to face trial.
The Warsaw-Lublin train route that was attacked is one of country’s busiest, linking the capital to the biggest city in eastern Poland and on toward Ukraine.
Tusk described the two attempts at sabotaging the line. “The first involved placing a steel clamp on the track, with a likely intention to derail a train. The incident was meant to be recorded by a mobile phone with a power bank that had been set up near the tracks. That attempt proved entirely unsuccessful.
“[In] the second incident … a military-grade C-4 explosive was detonated using an initiating device connected by a 300-meter electrical cable.”
Tusk also said that the government will introduce a higher degree of security alert, known as “Charlie,” along selected rail lines. A lower security alert, “Bravo,” remains in place for the rest of the country.
