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Poland asks Belarus to hand over suspects in Russian-linked rail sabotage

21.11.2025 12:00
Poland has formally requested the extradition of two Ukrainian citizens suspected of carrying out sabotage attacks on Polish territory on behalf of Russian intelligence services, the foreign ministry has said.
The National Public Prosecutors Office in Warsaw.
The National Public Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw.Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański

According to ministry spokesman Maciej Wewiór, the Belarusian chargé d’affaires was summoned to the Polish foreign ministry on Wednesday and handed an official diplomatic note requesting the handover of the two men.

Warsaw believes they were involved in what it described as "terrorist-related offences" linked to incidents in the villages of Mika and Gołąb, east-central Poland.

Polish authorities say two acts of sabotage took place last weekend along the Warsaw–Dorohusk railway line used to transport Western aid to Ukraine.

In Mika, in the central Mazovia region, an explosive device detonated and damaged a section of track.

In a separate incident near the Gołąb railway station in Lublin province, a train carrying 475 passengers was forced into an emergency stop after the line was found to be damaged

Polish prosecutors have charged the two Ukrainians, identified only as Oleksandr K. and Yevhenii I., in absentia with railway sabotage.

They believe the suspects were acting on instructions from Russia’s security services.

(ał/gs)

Source: PAP