Russian forces struck a Warsaw-bound train near the Polish border with Ukraine, prompting concerns about escalation and intimidation from Western leaders like EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The attack occurred just two kilometers from the border at Yahodyn station, shortly after another train carrying foreign dignitaries passed through safely. Russia claimed it targeted railway infrastructure used for military cargo transport, while Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of deliberately striking the locomotive to expand aggression into Europe.
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On September 13, a Russian drone hit the locomotive of a passenger train just kilometers from the Ukraine-Poland border near Yahodyn, which was carrying 208 people bound for Warsaw. Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha described it as an act of terror by Russian President Vladimir Putin, targeting NATO and EU nations. The incident happened shortly after another train carrying former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other European officials had passed through the same route. No casualties were reported, but Ukrainian authorities evacuated all passengers. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that Moscow might escalate further in coming weeks, while German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius called it a calculated move to instill fear in Europe.
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The strike hit a Warsaw-bound train near to the border a short time after another train carrying various foreign dignitaries passed through the same track.
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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he expected Moscow to escalate the war in "in the coming weeks", following Russian strikes that hit a Warsaw-bound train in Ukraine, just two kilometres from its border with Poland.
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that → say → Poland
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she believed Russia's strike to close to the Polish border was designed to "scare" Western countries backing Kyiv.
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strike → say → Kyiv
"It is clearly meant to scare Western countries from supporting Ukraine, from going to Ukraine to show support," Kallas said, urging Kyiv's supporters to do "the opposite".
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Meanwhile the country's foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski urged allies to "double" their support for Ukraine, following what he also called an "escalation".
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The train was at Yahodyn station when the strike occured.
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According to reports, only the train's engine was hit.
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Ukrainian authorities said all passengers were evacuated and no casualties were reported.
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Shortly before the train was hit, a different train carrying senior EU officials and the former British prime minister Boris Johnson, passed through Yahodyn on the same line towards Poland on their way back from a conference in Kyiv.
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He told the New York Times that he heard Russian drones overhead and a subequent explosion, describing it as "terrifying".
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Russia said it had hit "railway infrastructure used to transport military cargo" from European countries.
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Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of "deliberately" striking the locomotive.
"It is precisely to prevent these strikes from spreading further into Europe that Ukrainian men and women fight every day, give their lives, and do not allow the aggression to expand," Zelensky said.
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Zelensky → accuse → lives
Elsewhere, Russia's strikes on Ukraine on Sunday killed at least two people in the city of Kramatorsk.
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strikes → kill → Kramatorsk
Ukrainian officials also reported that 20 people, including two children, had been injured in the southern port city of Odesa.
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