Donald Tusk will issue a third-degree emergency order on circumstantial railway lines today. That's the answer to the last act of diversion. According to the Prime Minister, 2 Ukrainian citizens working with Russian services are behind the diversion. Tusk besides pointed out that work is underway on utilizing the military to safe critical infrastructure.
The vicinity of the Mika Railway Station, where harm to the tracks occurred on the night of 15 to 16 November as a consequence of a diversion act. photograph by Wojciech Olkuśnik/East News
Prime Minister Donald Tusk made a message in the parliament regarding Acts of diversion on the Warsaw-Lublin route. He explained that the information he received through the lawyer General in agreement with the peculiar Services and the Police Chiefs. Moreover, the extraordinary gathering was attended by the government National safety Committee in the morning, which besides featured military commanders, heads of service and a typical of the President.
According to the head of government, it was possible to identify the persons liable for the diversion act, which was intended to lead to disaster in rail traffic. These are 2 Ukrainian citizens who have been working with Russian services for a long time. The Prime Minister explained that this was determined by our services and the prosecution in cooperation with the alliance services.
No names were given in connection with the ongoing operation. Tusk explained that both suspects left Poland after the diversion through the crossing in Terespol. He besides pointed out that 1 of the suspects was convicted by a court in Lviv in May of that year for acts of diversion. The another is simply a resident of Donbas. Both of them got to Poland in the autumn of that year.
The Prime Minister has assured us that our country is in constant contact with the peculiar services of allied states. The Minister of abroad Affairs is to take immediate diplomatic action in order to transfer to Poland persons suspected of terrorist attack. But, as the Prime Minister pointed out, another actions will besides be taken to apprehend the perpetrators and their associates. “We will do everything to prosecute the perpetrators of these events and their associates,” said the head of the government.
Diversification acts
As the Prime Minister stated in the parliament, respective acts of diversion occurred. The first was to install a steel clamp on the railway track, which was likely to lead to derailment of the train. – This event was to be established by a powerbank mobile telephone mounted within the track. This effort proved unsuccessful," said Tusk in the Sejm.
The second event took place on Saturday 15 November at 8.58 p.m. The C4 military-type explosive was detonated with an initiating device via an electrical cable 300 m long. A certain amount of explosive was besides secured at the site, which did not detonate. – The cargo exploded during the freight train crossing of the Warsaw-Puława relationship, not leading to derailment, but only to insignificant harm to the wagon floor. The engineer did not even announcement this event – said the Prime Minister.
Tusk reported that the first study of the service event was received on 15 November at 21.40 from a resident of Mika, who heard a bang. As he said, the police showed up after 20 minutes. The area was searched for over an hour. – It was night and according to the individual reporting it was incapable to tell or propose where the detonation occurred. She didn't really know if it was an detonation due to the fact that she only noticed a bang," said the head of the government. “Police, after an hour's search around the property, refrained from further action, without noting the circumstances that would make them do another activities,” continued the Prime Minister. As he reported, on Sunday at 7.40 p.m., another train driving this track stopped at the site of the explosion. "The place was breached by subsequent crossings and thanks to the driver's reflex there was no tragedy," said Tusk.
The Prime Minister explained that the state authorities were notified of the diversion on Sunday at 9.43 a.m. The Prime Minister besides stressed in his speech that this is possibly the most serious situation for the safety of the Polish state since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine. “There was a border crossing,” said the Prime Minister.
Charlie alert.
Donald Tusk emphasized that specified acts of diversion are aimed at sowing unrest in Polish society: chaos, panic, speculation, uncertainty and awakening of anti-Ukrainian sentiments. He besides informed that the Heads of the interior safety Agency and the Ministry of Interior and Administration, after receiving the opinion of the terrorist threat team, had requested the introduction of Charlie's 3rd alert phase in relation to terrorist threats.
This phase will be covered by certain railway lines. “Today I will issue the applicable order on the basis of the acts of terrorism,” said Tusk. In the remainder of the country, the second alert phase will apply as before.
As announced by the Chief of Government, Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Head of the MON, and General Wiesław Kukuła, Head of the General Staff of the Polish Army, are working on an effective, reasonable and effective usage of the army to safe critical infrastructure, including railway infrastructure. The details are to be provided by Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamish.
Grade Charlie is the 3rd of the 4 alert stages specified in the Anti-Terrorism Act. This step shall be implemented in the event of an event confirming the probable mark of a terrorist attack or obtaining reliable information on the planned event. Alarm stages are primarily a signal to safety services and the public administration as a full to keep peculiar vigilance.
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