Context: In Poland, during the night of November 15–16, an explosion on the Warsaw–Lublin rail line damaged the tracks. Train traffic was temporarily halted. According to the Polish prosecutor’s office, it was an act of sabotage.
Political analyst Yury Vaskrasenski and host Vadizm Yalfimau discussed the incident on Poland’s railway during a Radio-Minsk broadcast on November 19, 2025. They accused the Polish authorities of lying.
“This is just another wild fantasy. There was no terrorist attack there,” Vaskrasenski said.
“Let’s be clear: a terrorist attack is always directed at people, at the lives of innocent civilians, right? And so on, and so on,” Yalfimau added.
“Yes. well…” the analyst agreed.
“And this was a freight train,” the host noted.
Polish officials described the incident as an act of sabotage, not a terrorist attack. Two Ukrainian citizens are suspected of carrying it out on behalf of Russian intelligence services. By definition, sabotage is aimed at a state’s critical infrastructure, while the purpose of a terrorist attack is to intimidate the population and pressure the authorities.
In this case, passenger trains narrowly avoided being hit. According to the Onet news portal, a high-speed InterCity passenger train passed over the damaged section of track. It was the engineer of that train who alerted the traffic control center to the damaged rails.
The information was relayed to the engineer of a Koleje Mazowieckie passenger train traveling behind it, and he stopped just before the damaged section. The Koleje Mazowieckie passenger train can be seen in photos from the scene.
The rail-line blast was also discussed on November 18 during a broadcast of International Radio Belarus (Międzynarodowe Radio Białoruś), which airs in Polish. Political analyst Piotr Piatrouski first called the sabotage a terrorist attack, then a staged act, and explained his view this way: “What we’re seeing here is… some kind of theater, really. That right after the attack happened, Tusk flew in half an hour later to inspect the rails and make statements.”
In reality, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk did not arrive half an hour later but more than a day after the incident. The damaged tracks were reported on Sunday morning, and the Polish prime minister did not appear there until Monday.
