Officers of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the Central Police Investigation Bureau (CBŚP) were dispatched to the site of damaged railway tracks in the Opole Voivodeship. The breach in the tracks was discovered on the second day of Christmas.
On the second day of Christmas, officers of the Railway Protection Guard found that a section of rail was missing on the railway line between Sławięcice and Rudziniec. As announced publicly, experts from PKP preliminarily determined that the damage may have been caused by very low air temperatures.
The website “Służby w akcji” shared a photo that is said to show the damage that occurred on the aforementioned route. The gap in the track bed is quite large, and the sleeper is also damaged.
An online debate has erupted over whether low temperatures could indeed have damaged the tracks in this way—especially given that the frost had lasted only a few days and temperatures in that part of the country fell to no lower than minus 10 degrees Celsius.
Officers of the Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego and the Centralne Biuro Śledcze Policji appeared at the site of the damaged tracks.
Acts of sabotage on the railway
The situation is particularly concerning because on November 15 and 16 acts of sabotage occurred on the railway line connecting Warsaw with Dorohusk. Yevhenii Ivanov and Oleksandr Kononov are suspected of damaging the tracks using an explosive device near the village of Mika in the Mazovian Voivodeship, as well as of a second incident near Puławy in the village of Gołąb—also on railway line No. 7 linking Warsaw and Dorohusk. There, part of the overhead catenary system was damaged, and metal elements were placed on the track, which could also have caused a train derailment.
These actions created a direct danger of a land-traffic disaster in the form of train derailments, posing a threat to the life and health of many people as well as to property on a massive scale. Both suspects are being sought with a red notice issued by Interpol. Unfortunately, after blowing up the tracks, they managed to flee Poland for Belarus.