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Russia’s drone strike near Ukraine-Poland border puts NATO neighbors on edge
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By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — It doesn’t really matter if they meant to do it.The Russian drone strike that hit a train near Ukraine’s border with Poland as a group of former Western officials travelled out of the country is a clear escalation by Moscow.
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A Russian drone attack targeted a border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova, killing two people and injuring three others, while Russian drones also struck in Kyiv, as Moscow continues its campaign of near-continuous strikes across Ukraine.
Moscow has already struck at least five crossings with Moldova and NATO member Romania since late August, pushing its aerial campaign farther from the front line.
Two incidents along Ukraine's borders with Poland and Moldova this week are a preview of potential intensified Russian provocations at Ukraine's border crossing points with Europe, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
Ukrzaliznytsia and authorities report ongoing Russian strikes on railway infrastructure with hits in Lutsk and Fastiv, prompting evacuations and potential train schedule changes as drones patrol Ukrainian airspace.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said two incidents along Ukraine’s borders with Poland and Moldova this week were a preview of potential intensified Russian provocations.
"This is (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's terror, 'knocking' directly on the doors of the EU and NATO. Russian barbarians are at your gate, dear partners," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
The locomotive of a passenger train traveling from Kyiv 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.
By Sophie Tanno and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — A Russian drone hit a gas station near Ukraine’s border with Poland, Ukrainian authorities said, the latest in a series of targeted attacks as both sides escalate their air war.
Ukrainian officials accused Russia of a "systemic attack" on its railways following drone strikes near the Polish border, including a hit on a locomotive of a passenger train headed to Warsaw.
"Drones were operating and even striking targets located very close to the Polish border," Polish Armed Forces' Operational Command spokesperson Jacek Goryszewski said.
Russia’s attacks on railways and border crossings are putting civilian travel at growing risk. Poland’s Donald Tusk warned days earlier that Moscow could target Ukraine’s crossings with Poland.
A Russian drone hit a gas station near Ukraine’s border with Poland, Ukrainian authorities said, the latest in a series of targeted attacks as both sides escalate their air war.
According to reporting first detailed by Der Spiegel and carried by the Daily Mail, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was aboard a special train that was abruptly evacuated after a Russian drone alert near Ukraine’s border with Poland.
No casualties reported as Ukraine’s foreign minister says ‘Putin’s terror knocking directly on doors of EU and Nato’ A passenger train travelling from Kyiv to Warsaw was hit by a Russian drone two kilometres from the Polish border, in an attack that Ukraine’s foreign minister described as “Putin’s t…
Ukraine and Poland on Sunday condemned Russian strikes near close to the Polish border as an "escalation" in the war, after drones struck a Warsaw-bound train and near a frontier checkpoint. Ukraine's rail operator said former British PM Boris Johnson and ex-US CIA director David Petraeus were at a …
“I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning,” former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote in a post on X.
The attacks raise the risk to civilian travel near a NATO frontier, days after Warsaw warned Moscow could hit the crossings, while far from home Ukrainian drone specialists surface fighting Russian forces from Mali to Sudan.
A Russian drone struck a train near Ukraine’s border with Poland shortly after a diplomatic train carrying former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European security officials passed through the area, according to Ukrainian authorities. No casualties were reported.
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