1 hour ago Ukrainians 'sabotaged Poland railway on behalf of Russia' in 'terrorist' attack

Two Ukrainian men are to be charged with sabotage of a terrorist nature on behalf of Russia after an explosion on a Polish rail line which delivers aid to Ukraine occurred

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6 h. ago Poland detains several people in connection with explosion on railway used to supply aid to Ukraine

Polish security minister says explosion was ‘a terrorist attack’

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10 h. ago Russian spy ship is spotted 'on edge of UK waters' with LASERS aimed at RAF pilots

A Russian spy ship designed to 'gather intelligence' has been sighted on the edge of British waters, the Defence Secretary has said.

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25 h. ago Ukrainians working for Russia were behind rail blasts, alleges Polish PM

Donald Tusk says two saboteurs crossed border from Belarus hoping to cause divisive ‘catastrophe’Polish authorities have identified two Ukrainian men, allegedly working for the Russian intelligence services, as the key suspects in two cases of rail sabotage, the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said.The men are alleged to have planted a military-grade explosive device and attached a steel clamp to rail tracks in two incidents on a strategic rail route used for aid deliveries for Ukraine. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Ukrainians working for Russia were behind rail blasts, says Polish PM

Donald Tusk says two saboteurs crossed border from Belarus hoping to cause divisive ‘catastrophe’Polish authorities have identified two Ukrainian men, allegedly working for the Russian intelligence services, as the key suspects in two cases of rail sabotage, the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said.The men are alleged to have planted a military-grade explosive device and attached a steel clamp to rail tracks in two incidents on a strategic rail route used for aid deliveries for Ukraine. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Two Ukrainian men believed to be working with Russia identified as suspects in Polish rail sabotage attacks – Europe live

Donald Tusk warns Polish parliament of an ‘escalation’ of Russian intelligence activities ‘across the whole of Europe’Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk has just told lawmakers that the authorities investigating the rail sabotage incidents over the weekend identified two main suspects.He says the suspects are Ukrainian men, who crossed into Poland from Belarus this autumn, and are believed to have been working for Russian intelligence services. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Two Ukrainians who ‘collaborated with Russia’ were behind railway explosion, Poland says

PM Donald Tusk said the individuals had fled for Belarus

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34 h. ago Russian intelligence likely to be behind explosion on Polish railway track, say officials

A train driver had first reported damage on the railway line near Mika village

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35 h. ago Poland says ‘everything indicates’ Russia was behind rail sabotage incidents – Europe live

Security spokesperson says the incident at the weekend was a terrorist attack ‘initiated by special services from the East’In a further confirmation of the inquiry lines in Poland, the Polish security services minister’s spokesperson Jacek Dobrzyński has just confirmed that “everything indicates” that Russian intelligence services were behind the rail sabotage incidents in Poland over the weekend.“The fact is that everything indicates that this ... we can already confidently call it a terrorist attack, was initiated by special services from the East,” he later added. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Polish railway explosion was 'unprecedented act of sabotage', Prime Minister Donald Tusk says

The blast on a key railway line used to transport weapons to Ukraine follows a wave of attacks that have hit Poland and other European countries

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53 h. ago ‘Foreign state’ behind explosion on Polish railway track used to send weapons to Ukraine, says minister

The explosion occurred on a route used to deliver weapons to Ukraine

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57 h. ago Polish PM says explosion on railway track used to send weapons to Ukraine was ‘act of sabotage’

The explosion occurred on a route used to deliver weapons to Ukraine

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58 h. ago Polish prime minister says weekend rail line explosion near Warsaw was act of 'sabotage'

Poland's prime minister says a railway line bringing passenger trains into Warsaw from southeastern Poland was an act of sabotage

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59 h. ago Explosion on Polish railway was ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’, says PM – Europe live

Donald Tusk says ‘worse fears confirmed’ over damage on route used to ferry aid deliveries to UkraineIn further comments after his visit to the site of the incident this morning, Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk called it “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”“An investigation is under way. Just like in previous cases of this kind, we will catch the perpetrators, regardless of who their backers are,” he pledged. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Putin’s desperate ‘last roll of the dice’ for besieged city before troops face brutal

VLADIMIR Putin's army has just weeks to clinch a "symbolic" victory in a Ukrainian key city - or face a killer winter in the trenches. The tyrant has thrown closing in on 200,000 troops into his stalling meatgrinder in an ongoing 18-month attempt to capture Pokrovsk. Intelligence suggests at least 135,000 Russian soldiers have been...

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7 d. ago Almost 10ft crocodile rescued from bullet train project site

Reptile had fallen down a pit dug for a railway track pillar near a river known for its large crocodile population

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1 week ago James Bond fantasist jailed for 7 years in UK for trying to spy for Russia

A British man who had aspirations of being James Bond has been jailed for seven years for trying to spy for what he believed to be Russian intelligence service agents

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1 week ago Grant Shapps says 'he put me and my family at serious risk' as ex

Howard Phillips, 65, told two MI5 officers posing as Russian agents that he wanted to work in intelligence to avoid a 'nine to five office' job after retiring aged 58 and clearing out his savings.

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2 w. ago The Nord Stream riddle: echoes of mistrust ripple through Europe

Three years after explosion that crippled Russian-German gas link, Polish court’s refusal to extradite Ukrainian suspect reignited old tensionsChunky steel pipes run through one of the exhibition rooms at Warsaw’s Museum of Contemporary Art, part of an installation that purports to show “how gas flows, propaganda and conspiracy theories intertwine”.The exhibit is an artistic nod to Nord Stream 2, the undersea gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, which was completed in 2021 but had not entered service when mysterious underwater explosions took it out of action in September 2022. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Russia link suspected as Bulgarians jailed for vandalising Paris Jewish memorial

Four men given prison terms for desecration that was possibly ‘orchestrated by Russian intelligence services’A French court on Friday sentenced four Bulgarians to between two and four years in prison for desecrating a Jewish memorial with red handprints last year, in what prosecutors think may have been foreign interference linked to Russia.The Paris criminal court gave two-year sentences to Georgi Filipov and Kiril Milushev, described as the perpetrators, and four years and three years respectively to Nikolay Ivanov and Mircho Angelov, considered the operation’s “masterminds”. Angelov is still at large. Continue reading...

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