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Poland / 2025-11-16-pl-2

Gołąb: damage to overhead lines on railway line 7

/ date of the event

What happened

On line 7 near Gołąb the overhead line was damaged and metal fittings were bolted to the rail with the aim of derailing a train. The driver of a PKP Intercity service from Świnoujście to Rzeszów carrying 475 people braked after a damage alert; falling overhead line components broke the outer panes of windows in one carriage. No one was injured. A phone wired to the track was also found nearby.

Responsibility and limits of the evidence

officially attributed

A court or a competent state body has attributed it. That is not the same as a proven attack: an indictment is an allegation, not a verdict.

Named party: Russian Federation services

B - official attribution by a state body

Prezes Rady Ministrów Donald Tusk / 2025-11-18 / recruiting those who carried it out

On 18 November 2025 the Prime Minister told parliament that the direct perpetrators were two Ukrainian citizens, one from Donbas, "cooperating with the Russian services". The perpetrators' nationality and their cooperation with those services are two separate claims; the statement set out no evidentiary basis.

Impact

killed
0
injured
0
damage
property damage

No one was injured; the outer window panes of one carriage were broken.

Sources

  1. Mamy do czynienia z aktem dywersji. Szef MSWiA o skoordynowanych działaniach służb w miejscu uszkodzenia torów

    Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji / 2025-11-17 / primary source

    supports: the record, that it happened, the date

  2. PM Tusk in parliament: Russia behind sabotage attacks in Poland

    Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów / 2025-11-18 / primary source

    supports: the attribution, the record