Drone attack on Ukrainian train at Polish border

The train hit by a drone was traveling from Kiev with over 200 passengers on board when it was hit two kilometers from the border.

Another drone crashed 800 meters from the Polish border, says Prime Minister Donald Tusk. No one is said to have been injured in the attack.

Sweden's former foreign minister and prime minister Carl Bildt writes on X that he traveled on a train that ran on the same route.

"It wasn't our train, but the train that came just a few minutes after us at the border crossing," he writes, and says that his train was warned to evacuate but that it could continue to the border at Dorohusk.

"The attacks against Ukraine are intensifying," Bildt writes, but also notes that his train had "a very good security system."

The former Swedish prime minister was not the only high-ranking politician on board the train. According to the Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former CIA director David Petraeus and several former leaders of EU countries were also there.

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Russia deliberately targeted the train and a gas station at the border.

"It is precisely to prevent these attacks from spreading further into Europe that Ukrainian men and women are fighting every day, sacrificing their lives and preventing the aggression from spreading," he said, according to AFP.

Russia claims in a statement that it struck "railway infrastructure" in western Ukraine that is "used for military cargo from Europe".

"This is Putin's terror 'knocking' on the doors of the EU and NATO. Russian barbarians stand at your doorstep, dear partners," writes Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha on X.

Donald Tusk says, according to AFP, that the Russian attacks will intensify in the coming weeks and that "this escalation could affect Poland".

The border crossing in Dorohusk was temporarily closed but has now been reopened. The attacks at the border were part of a larger Russian attack on Ukraine overnight.