Report labels November 2025 Polish rail blast near Mika a terrorist act

The blast under a freight train

On 15 November 2025 at 20:52, a charge detonated under the third wagon of a freight train on the Sobolew-Życzyn line near Mika in the Mazovian voivodeship. The blast tore out the right rail, leaving a gap of 116 cm, or 1.16 m as the commission gives it. The freight train was carrying raw materials from the Port Północny in Gdańsk to the Azoty Puławy plant. Its driver felt only a small bang and assumed a pantograph working with the overhead line had caused it, so he checked the wires, found them intact and drove on to Puławy Azoty without seeing any damage. The State Commission for Railway Accident Investigation, which published its report on 15 November 2026, described how the device was placed:

“The charge was prepared, placed on the right rail and detonated by outside persons.”

Eleven more trains and a missed warning

The commission says eleven further trains crossed the spot after the blast, gradually breaking away more of the rail until the gap reached 1.16 m. The next morning, on 16 November 2025, an express train driver felt a step and a drop in the track. A passenger train driver spotted the missing rail section, braked and crossed the damaged stretch without derailing, then reported the gap to the traffic dispatcher. According to the report, the first warning signs were dismissed, and the report also finds that Polish services did not work together in the case.

Cable, camera and the suspects

Services found a cable about 400 m long stretching from the blast site to a car park at the Mika station stop, along with a camera on the embankment beside the spot. The commission classed the act as terrorism carried out by a sabotage group, aimed at causing a land-transport disaster and intimidating many people. Services say two Ukrainian citizens, Jewhenij I. and Oleksandr K., carried out the attack on Russia's orders. They came in from Belarus through Terespol and fled back the same way. One of the two had been convicted in Lviv for sabotage in Ukraine, a record Polish services did not know about, and the other came from Donbas. Arrest warrants were issued for both, and they remain at large.

Charges and the second incident

A third Ukrainian, Wołodymyr B., is said to have provided logistics, including driving one of the perpetrators to scout the area and choose the location in September 2025. He has been detained and charged with aiding terrorist sabotage on behalf of foreign intelligence. An indictment against him has been sent to the Warsaw District Court, and the charge carries a possible life sentence. A second incident occurred on the evening of 16 November 2025 on the Zarzeka-Puławy Azoty section near Gołąb, where a train carrying 475 passengers had to brake suddenly because of a damaged overhead line. Prosecutors are conducting an investigation into the case.