Poland and Ukraine have condemned a Russian strike on a Warsaw-bound train near their shared border, calling it an escalation in the war. The train was hit at Yahodyn station in Ukraine, about two kilometres from Poland, according to Euronews.
Ukrainian authorities said the train’s engine was struck and that all passengers were evacuated without casualties. Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he expected Moscow to escalate the conflict in the coming weeks. Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski called for allies to double their support for Ukraine.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the strike appeared intended to frighten Western countries that support Kyiv and discourage officials from travelling to Ukraine. She urged those countries to respond by doing the opposite.
Another train carrying senior EU officials and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had passed through Yahodyn on the same line shortly before the attack, while returning from a conference in Kyiv. Former CIA director David Petraeus was on a different train at the station and told the New York Times that he heard drones overhead followed by an explosion, which he described as terrifying.
Russia said it had struck railway infrastructure used to transport military cargo from European countries. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of deliberately targeting the locomotive and said Ukrainians were fighting to prevent the conflict from spreading further into Europe.
Elsewhere, Russian strikes on Sunday killed at least two people in Kramatorsk, according to the supplied report. Ukrainian officials said 20 people, including two children, were injured in the southern port city of Odesa.