Ukraine says passenger train heading to Warsaw hit by drone | Today’s news
The locomotive of a passenger train traveling from Kiev to Warsaw was hit by a Russian drone just kilometers from the Polish border on Sunday morning, Ukraine’s foreign minister said, as Moscow’s airstrikes push closer to NATO territory.
“This is Putin’s terror ‘knocking’ right on the door of the EU and NATO,” Andrii Sybiha said in a post on X, urging Europe to increase sanctions against Russia.
Ukraine’s state rail operator confirmed the strike on a train in Volyn, about two kilometers from the Ukrainian-Polish border in northwestern Ukraine. Russian authorities have not yet commented.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said there had been no border breach, but called the incident an “escalation” by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The drones involved in the incident were Geran-5 jet-powered drones, Polish authorities said.
Kremlin forces “hit the locomotive of a passenger train,” Ukrzaliznytsia railway company said in Telegram. “The monitoring group alerted the train crew in advance of the threat, resulting in no injuries.”
The train, which was carrying 208 people, will continue to Poland after a roughly six-hour delay at the border, Polish Railways said.
Ukrzaliznytsia said Sunday’s strike was the second this weekend. Late on Saturday, Sybiha released images of railway equipment struck in Lutsk, northwest Ukraine, and Fastiv, southwest of Kyiv.
“Unable to achieve its goals on the battlefield, Russia is attempting to turn the entire territory of Ukraine into a battlefield, moving to systematic attacks against civilians, trains and the infrastructure that keeps the country moving,” he said.
Images on social media also showed a large fire at a gas station near the border crossing between Yahodyn, Ukraine, and Dorohusk, Poland.
Margus Tsahkna, Estonia’s foreign minister, told X that members of his team “were stuck at this very border crossing and could not leave Ukraine because of the threat of Russian drones.”
Separately on Sunday, Vilnius airport was temporarily closed as NATO scrambled fighter jets in response to a possible sighting of a drone in Lithuanian airspace, Reuters reported.
With the help of Konrad Krasuski.
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