(MENAFN- UkrinForm) This was announced by Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Maciej Wewior, Ukrinform reports, citing PAP.

The spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry said that a diplomatic note requesting the extradition of two Ukrainian citizens suspected of acts of terrorism on Polish territory in the interests of the Russian special services was handed over on Wednesday to the chargé d'affaires of Belarus in Poland.

In addition, Wewior noted that the Russian Consulate General in Gdańsk, which, by decision of the Polish Foreign Minister, must cease operations due to terrorist attacks on the Polish railway, must close by midnight on December 23, and Russian diplomats from this consular office must leave Poland by that time.

The publication reports that the saboteurs are 39-year-old Alexander Kononov and 41-year-old Yevgeny Ivanov. One of them is a former employee of the prosecutor's office in Donbas, and the other was convicted in absentia by a court in Lviv in May this year for sabotage on the territory of Ukraine. They arrived in Poland in September this year from Belarus and left Poland for Belarus immediately after committing the sabotage.

As reported by Ukrinform, the Polish prosecutor's office has charged two Ukrainian citizens, 39-year-old Oleksandr K. and 41-year-old Yevgeny I., with sabotage on the railway in Poland.

Polish special services have identified several other possible accomplices of the two saboteurs with Ukrainian citizenship who were acting on behalf of Russian special services. According to the publication Onet, they also have Ukrainian citizenship and are in Poland.

During a speech in the Sejm, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski stated that Polish politicians who accuse Ukraine of involvement in Russian sabotage on the Polish railway are in fact“political saboteurs.”

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Sikorski also announced the decision to close the Russian Consulate General in Gdańsk in connection with the sabotage on the Polish railway.

On the night of November 18, Poland resumed train service on two sections of track damaged by sabotage over the weekend. The Warsaw-Lublin section of the railway, where the sabotage took place, is of strategic importance for the delivery of aid to Ukraine.

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