Poland, Ukraine condemn Russian drone strike on train near border

A Russian drone strike hit a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing, about 2 kilometers from Polish territory. No casualties were reported. Ukraine's rail operator said a diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson and EU officials had been at Yagodyn station shortly before, while former CIA director David Petraeus was aboard another train there at the moment of the attack. Both were in Kyiv for the Yalta European Strategy forum. Petraeus said he heard Russian drones followed by an explosion and passengers were evacuated. Johnson posted on X that he did not know what warped logic drove the strike on a stationary locomotive and that it was the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians endure every day on civilian railways. Poland and Ukraine denounced the strike. Prime Minister Donald Tusk chaired an emergency meeting in Warsaw and said, "We cannot exclude that the escalation will also affect our territory... I hope not." Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in Kyiv the strike was a few hundred metres from the Polish border and called for allies to double support. Zelensky said it is to prevent such strikes from spreading further into Europe that Ukrainians fight every day. Russia said it hit railway infrastructure used to transport military cargo from European countries. Ukrainian officials suggested the diplomatic train may have been targeted; that claim has not been independently established. US envoys had visited Kyiv and Moscow days earlier. The Kremlin said Russia-Ukraine-US talks could occur in October. Zelensky said he would be willing to meet Putin at the G20 in Miami in December; Peskov, speaking in New Delhi, called a meeting outside Russia impossible.