Sabotage on Warsaw-Dorohusk railway line. Report indicates terrorist acts
The State Railway Accident Investigation Commission has published a report on incidents from November 2025 on line no. 7. The prosecution is conducting an investigation, and two suspects have fled Poland.
Sabotage on Warsaw-Dorohusk line classified as terrorism
The State Railway Accident Investigation Commission has published a report concerning two incidents on railway line no. 7 connecting Warsaw with Dorohusk, which occurred in November 2025. The Commission classified both events as acts of a terrorist nature carried out by sabotage groups, according to Interia.
The first attack took place on 15 November at 20.52 in the vicinity of Mika (Masovian Voivodeship). An explosive device was placed under a passing freight train, the detonation of which broke the right rail and caused its discontinuity along the entire length of the track. The driver did not feel the explosion directly — he only heard a small bang and assumed it came from the pantograph working with the traction network. Despite the damage, 11 subsequent trains passed through the damaged section without problems, gradually crumbling the rail.
The next morning, the driver of an express train felt a jolt and a depression in the track. The driver of a passenger train noticed the missing section of rail and began braking, passing through the damaged section without the train derailing. At the site, services found a cable approximately 400 metres long stretched from the detonation point to a car park, and a camera on the embankment.
The Commission determined that the event was intended to cause a catastrophe in land traffic and to intimidate many people.
The second incident occurred in the evening of 16 November on the Zarzeka-Puławy Azoty section in the Gołębie area. A passenger train on the Świnoujście-Rzeszów Główny route damaged the locomotive pantograph due to a missing section of traction network approximately 244 metres long. In one of the carriages, three external windows were shattered. Services revealed a piece of metal placed on the rail and fastened with a screw, and a smartphone with a power bank were found nearby. According to the Commission, the discovered elements indicate deliberate action by third parties aimed at causing an accident.
The Masovian Department of the National Prosecutor's Office is conducting an investigation in both cases. Two suspects accused of directly carrying out sabotage acts — Oleksandr K. and Yevhenii I. — have fled Poland and are evading the authorities. They are being sought by international arrest warrants and European arrest warrants, and red notices have been issued for them by Interpol.
The prosecution has filed an indictment with the court against a Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr B., suspected of providing assistance in preparing and carrying out the attacks. The man was to have provided the perpetrators with logistics and operational support. He faces a life sentence.
Source: Interia