It was still dark. Katerina Sergatskova was a journalist on the train from Kyiv to Warsaw. Workers told the passengers to leave the train quickly and to walk to the lake. Sergatskova did this, and then she stood outside for several hours. She told the Kyiv Independent that there was no shelter. She saw Russian drones hit a petrol station and hit the front of her train, near the Yahodyn border crossing between Ukraine and Poland.
The train was about two kilometres from Poland. The Ukrainian state railway company said nobody on the train was hurt. All 206 passengers left the train in time. The Polish railway company PKP said it took the train.
Later that day, people learned who else was near. The Ukrainian railway company said another train was at Yahodyn station a short time before. On that train were security advisers from EU countries and old European leaders, and one of them was the former British prime minister Boris Johnson. The former CIA director David Petraeus was at the station too. The railway company said the other train was maybe the real target. Russia said it attacked railways in western Ukraine.
The drone also started a fire at a petrol station and burned some lorries, about 800 metres from the border crossing. The foreign minister of Estonia, Margus Tsahkna, put a video of the fire online. He said his own team was at this border crossing only hours before, and they could not leave Ukraine because of the Russian drones.
A Ukrainian border guard said the Yahodyn crossing itself was not hit. The Polish defence minister said the drones did not come into Polish air. But Poland was worried. The Polish foreign minister wrote “Putin escalates” online, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk called a crisis meeting for the afternoon.
Politicians from the West travel to Kyiv by train because Ukrainian airspace is closed.