Political Analyst: Lukashenko Helped The Saboteurs Who Attacked Poland

Minsk has become part of Moscow's hybrid operation.

Poland continues to investigate a series of diversions on the railroad committed on behalf of foreign intelligence. Authorities are explicitly pointing to a Russian trail, and the suspects arrived in the country via Belarus.

Who is really behind these sabotages and what is their purpose? This is what Charter97.org asked Maksim Pleshko, candidate of philosophical sciences, head of the Ukrainian Center for Belarusian Communications:

- According to the Polish authorities, the sabotage was committed by two Ukrainian citizens recruited by Russian special services, who entered Poland from Belarus and fled there after blowing up the tracks. Warsaw and the EU explicitly call it an operation of the Russian secret services and even "state terrorism".

The purpose of such attacks is obvious:

- to disrupt the logistics of arms supplies to Ukraine. The Warsaw-Lublin line leads to Rzeszow, NATO's main hub;

- to intimidate Polish society and allies;

- to sow distrust between Poland and Ukraine by using perpetrators with Ukrainian passports;

- to continue the hybrid war against Europe.

The perpetrators are only a tool. The source of the threat is the Kremlin itself.

- Is it a coincidence that the bombings occurred on the day of the opening of the two Polish-Belarusian crossings? What role could the Lukashenko regime have played?"

- Coincidence in such things is unlikely. On the day Poland makes a move to détente with Minsk, there is a diversion, and the perpetrators use Belarusian territory twice - to enter and to escape. Lukashenko's regime provides a territorial rear for Russian special services and their agents, free transit of saboteurs, and political support for hybrid operations.

There is no evidence yet that the sabotage was planned by the Belarusian KGB, but Minsk objectively plays the role of a base and shelter for Russian operations against Poland and NATO.

- What response should Poland and NATO countries give to these attacks?

The response should be multilayered:

- Security: increased protection of railroads, empowerment of security services, joint investigations with the U.S. and EU.

- Diplomacy: reduction of Russian diplomatic presence, sanctions against the structures involved, recognition of such operations as acts of state terrorism.

- Strategy: increased military assistance to Ukraine, revision of policy towards Lukashenko's regime, strengthening NATO's eastern flank and protection of critical infrastructure.

The main thing to show is that an attack on one NATO country is a challenge to the entire Alliance, and support for Ukraine is not weakening but increasing.

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