The locomotive of a passenger train traveling from Kyiv to Warsaw was on Sunday morning hit by a Russian drone just kilometers from the Polish border, the Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs said, as Moscow’s airstrikes push closer to NATO territory. The attack happened minutes after another train carrying European officials including former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt and former UK British prime minister Boris Johnson left the station on the way back from an annual conference in Kyiv. Former CIA director David Petraeus was at the station when the drone hit, the New York Times reported. The strike marked the latest escalation by Russia in the war — in its fifth year — as acts of sabotage, arson and drone incursions proliferate across the continent.
A locomotive damaged in a Russian drone attack is pictured at Yahodyn railway station near Ukraine’s border with Poland on Sunday.
“This is Putin’s terror ‘knocking’ directly on the doors of the EU and NATO,” Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said in a post on social media, calling for Europe to increase sanctions against Russia. Ukraine’s state railway operator confirmed a strike on a train in Volyn, about 2km from the Ukraine-Poland border in northwestern Ukraine.
