A passenger train traveling from kyiv to Warsaw was hit by a Russian drone two kilometers from the Polish border in an attack that Ukraine’s foreign minister described as “Putin’s terror knocking directly on the doors of the EU and NATO.” Overnight strikes across Ukraine involving more than 450 Russian drones and missiles killed at least six people and wounded more than 40. Ukraine’s air force said it had intercepted 405 drones and four missiles. Western Ukraine, which is typically calmer than kyiv or frontline areas in the east, was particularly hard hit. The attacks prompted air raid warnings in Poland, which shares a border with western Ukraine. Ukrainian and Polish authorities said a truck less than a kilometer from the Dorohusk-Yahodyn border crossing between the two countries was also hit. to people working in high-risk environments, was traveling on the train bound for Warsaw. He said passengers were told to evacuate at around 9am as the train approached the Polish border, after being told to disembark for two hours in the middle of the night. “At that time, the environment was different, they asked us to act very quickly,” he said. “Then I heard the first drone. “See and hear Shahed [drones] “There were no casualties on the train. A British economist who preferred not to be named, who was traveling on an overnight train from kyiv to Chelm in Poland, also witnessed the attack. “We spent 10 hours at the border and were evacuated three times. On the third evacuation, a missile passed by and destroyed a locomotive in front of our train.” Railway officials ordered the “grimly focused” passengers to hide in the bushes next to a lake, the economist said, calling the Ukrainian response “timely and disciplined.” They “gave us good notice of the evacuation and had a plan, which everyone followed.” “The driver said when we boarded that there was a high risk that we would be evacuated during the trip. The woman and her eight-year-old son who were in my compartment said that they had been traveling back and forth to kyiv from Warsaw every month since 2022 and that they had never been evacuated or the train attacked while traveling the route. This is clearly an escalation on the part of Putin and the Russians.” Three people were killed in the eastern Donetsk region, and a 71-year-old woman was killed in the southern Mykolaiv region. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the Russian attacks were “not just a continuation of their attacks on our state borders.” “This is Putin’s terror knocking directly on the doors of the EU and NATO. Russian barbarians are at your door, dear partners,” he wrote on Russian drones near the border previous newsletter promotion Free newsletter | Every weekday Subscribe to the first edition Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matters after the newsletter promotion “The coming weeks and months will be a period of very intense actions by Russia,” he said, adding that Poland “cannot rule out that this escalation will also affect our territory.” after the drone attacks near the border with Ukraine. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, who visited kyiv this week, said on X after the Sunday morning attack: “Putin is escalating.” The situation is being continuously monitored. Russia is the enemy of the free world.” Russia claimed it attacked “rail infrastructure” in western Ukraine used to “transport military cargo” from Europe. “Attacks have continued against railway infrastructure in the western regions of Ukraine, which are used to transport military cargo from European countries,” Moscow’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. Ukraine and Russia have increased attacks on critical infrastructure in each other’s countries as drones and long-range missiles move the war away from the front lines. US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Zelenskyy should “stop eliminating diesel fuel in Russia” because it was causing shortages. “Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, because he is causing a diesel shortage,” Trump said, adding that the shortage was caused by the war between Russia and Ukraine and not by the US war in the Middle East. In Lithuania, authorities briefly closed the airport in Vilnius, the capital, after what was perceived as a sighting of a plane. NATO drone dispatched at least one fighter jet in response to the alert, which turned out to be a flock of birds. The airport reopened within 40 minutes, according to Lithuanian authorities.
