A Russian unmanned drone has attacked a Ukrainian train near the Ukraine-Poland border, just after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several European senior security officials had passed through the area.
The attack took place at the Yahodyn station in Ukraine, hitting the train but causing no casualties. Ukrainian authorities stated that all passengers had been evacuated.
The Ukrainian railway operator reported that the train was attacked only 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Polish border. This route is frequently used by foreign delegations returning from Kyiv.
According to state-owned Ukrzaliznytsia, a special train carrying Boris Johnson, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, and several EU national security advisors had departed Yahodyn station earlier. The visitors had just attended a security conference in Kyiv and were on their way back.
“The train that was attacked was not the one we were on but the one that passed through the border post a few minutes after us. When the drone approached, the passengers had already been evacuated, and no casualties occurred. The security system worked very well,” said former Swedish PM Bildt on the social media platform X.
With the frontlines largely stagnant, Moscow and Kyiv have recently intensified long-range strikes in an effort to change the course of the conflict.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated that Russia’s increasingly frequent attacks near NATO’s “doorstep” are an “escalation of the situation.”
Border guards reported that earlier on Sunday, a Russian drone struck a truck less than a mile from Polish territory, resulting in the temporary closure of the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing.
Russia claimed to have targeted “railway infrastructure” in western Ukraine, but Ukrzaliznytsia posted on Telegram that the Russian drone’s original target was likely the diplomatic special train, which had departed the station earlier than scheduled.
Ukrzaliznytsia mentioned that the company is continuously adjusting train schedules to prevent further attacks.
In Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for an emergency meeting to discuss the latest developments.
“The actions of the Russian side are escalating continuously and becoming a reality, as they are steadily moving closer to our borders,” he said.
In the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine controlled by Russia, the head of the Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom accused Ukraine of attacking fuel trucks near the “Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,” Europe’s largest nuclear power facility.