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A Russian drone attacked a passenger train near the Polish border with Ukraine overnight, targeting a stretch of track that just moments before a train carrying former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former CIA Director David Petraeus, and other senior European security officials had traveled along.
Johnson was attending the YES security conference in Kyiv and was traveling back aboard a chartered train with senior security officials from across Europe, including the top security adviser to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and senior security officials from the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. The train was halted at approximately 5 a.m. and partially evacuated before an all-clear was given. No casualties were reported.
Ukraine’s state rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia confirmed the drone struck a locomotive on the Kyiv-Warsaw passenger line in the western Volyn region, two kilometers from the Polish frontier. “For the second day in a row, the enemy has been attacking the railways. Today in the Volyn region, two km from the border with Poland, the enemy struck the locomotive of a passenger train,” the operator said. Railway threat-monitoring teams detected the danger before the strike and warned the crew in time to take protective measures.
Poland scrambled military aircraft in response. Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said systems had detected a morning attack by Geran-5 drones in western Ukraine. “One of them struck 1 km from the border with Poland, another 5 km. The Polish airspace was guarded by F-16 aircraft, helicopters, and the SAAB airborne reconnaissance aircraft. There was no breach of our border,” he said. Residents in the Lublin and Podkarpackie regions received alerts warning of Russian air attacks on Ukrainian territory.
The drone strike was part of a wider overnight Russian air offensive involving more than 450 drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. At least three people were killed and 36 injured in the broader attacks. Authorities temporarily restricted traffic at Polish-Ukrainian border crossings. A drone also struck and destroyed a truck approximately 800 meters from the Jagodzin crossing.
Johnson reacted publicly, saying: “I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the strikes near Poland a direct message to the EU and NATO. “This is Putin’s terror ‘knocking’ directly on the doors of the EU and NATO. Russian barbarians are at your gate, dear partners,” he wrote. Sybiha called for tougher measures against Moscow, including a full trade embargo, entry bans, and broader sanctions on Russia’s military-industrial sector.
The Guardian reported that Ukrainian officials suggested the train carrying Johnson and Petraeus may have been deliberately targeted.
