Ukrainian and Polish authorities said a lorry less than a kilometre from the Dorohusk-Yahodyn border crossing between the two countries was also hit.<\/p>\n
Reuters reported Russia\u2019s defence ministry as saying it had targeted infrastructure that facilitated military cargo being moved from Europe<\/a> into Ukraine.<\/p>\n Katerina Sergatskova, the director of Daily Humanity, an organisation that provides training to people working in high-risk environments, was travelling on the Warsaw-bound train.<\/p>\n She said passengers were told to evacuate at about 9am as the train approached the Polish border having already been told to disembark for two hours in the middle of the night. \u201cAt this point, the mood was different, we were asked to move very fast,\u201d she said. \u201cThen I heard the first drone.<\/p>\n \u201cSeeing and hearing Shahed [drones] just a few hundred metres from the border is a very unpleasant experience.\u201d<\/p>\n No casualties were reported on the train.<\/p>\n A British economist who preferred not to be named, travelling on a night train from Kyiv towards Chelm in Poland, also witnessed the attack. \u201cWe spent 10 hours at the border and were evacuated three times. On the third evacuation a missile came over and totalled a locomotive in front of our train.\u201d<\/p>\n Railway officials instructed the \u201cgrimly focused\u201d passengers to hide in bushes by a lake, said the economist, calling the Ukrainian response \u201ctimely and disciplined\u201d. They \u201cgave us good warning of the evacuation and had a plan, which everyone followed\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe conductor said when we boarded that there was a high risk that we would be evacuated during the journey. The lady and her eight-year-old son who were in my compartment said they had been travelling back and forth every month to Kyiv from Warsaw since 2022 and they had never been evacuated, or the train attacked, while travelling the route. This is clearly an escalation by Putin and the Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n Three people were killed in the eastern Donetsk region, and a 71-year-old woman was killed in the southern Mykolaiv region.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said the Russian strikes were \u201cnot just a continuation of its attacks on our state borders\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is Putin\u2019s terror knocking directly on the doors of the EU and Nato. Russian barbarians are at your gate, dear partners,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote on Telegram: \u201cUkrainians are fighting every day to prevent these strikes from spreading further into Europe, giving their lives and preventing the aggression from expanding.\u201d<\/p>\n The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, warned on Sunday that intensifying Russian attacks in Ukraine in the coming weeks could affect Poland, as he chaired an emergency meeting after the Russian drone attacks near the border.<\/p>\n
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