Ukraine and Poland to Create a Joint Group to Prevent Russian Sabotage

Ukraine and Poland will join forces to prevent Russian sabotage, particularly on the railways.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced this after a conversation with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

According to him, the countries agreed to create a joint group to respond to similar situations in the future.

“Ukraine is ready to cooperate with Poland at various levels and share all information. We have agreed to establish a Ukrainian-Polish group that will work to prevent similar situations from Russia in the future,” Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.

Tusk shared with Zelensky information from Polish law enforcement and intelligence agencies regarding the recent rail sabotage in Poland.

He pointed out that the social media platform Telegram was used to organize subversive activities and launch a disinformation campaign against Ukraine.

“I noted that such subversive actions are directed against Ukraine every day, including by rail. At Ukrzaliznytsia, we have taken appropriate measures to counter such sabotage. Our information aligns: all the facts point to a Russian trail behind it. No one but the Russians is interested in this,” Zelensky wrote.

According to the President, Ukraine is ready to cooperate with Poland at various levels and share all information, in particular, to prevent sabotage.

Poland considers the recent bombing of a railroad track near the village of Mika and the planting of objects on the railway infrastructure near the Pulawy station to be acts of sabotage. They took place on the Warsaw-Lublin section of the strategically important route for helping Ukraine.

Polish law enforcement officials believe that two people with Ukrainian passports and working for Russia are responsible for the sabotage on the railroad.

The two men entered Poland from Belarus, and after their actions, left the country through the Terespol border crossing – before the investigation identified them.

After the incidents, Poland decided to deploy territorial defense troops to patrol the most important parts of the critical railroad infrastructure.