{"id":331068,"date":"2026-09-14T06:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331068"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:59:00","slug":"russian-drone-attack-on-station-likely-aimed-for-boris-johnsons-train-ukraine-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331068","title":{"rendered":"Russian drone attack on station likely aimed for Boris Johnson\u2019s train, Ukraine says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Ukrainian locomotive damaged in a Russian drone attack at Yahodyn railway station near Ukraine\u2019s border with Poland<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Times of Israel \u2013 Sept 14, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine- Poland border on Sunday shortly after senior visiting officials \u2014 including the former prime ministers of the UK and Sweden \u2014 passed through, Ukraine\u2019s state rail operator said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ukrzaliznytsia, a diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and security advisers from several European Union states had purposely left the station at Yahodyn ahead of schedule. The visitors were on their way back from a security conference in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is highly probable that the Russian drone\u2019s intended target was in fact the diplomatic train, which had departed the station earlier than scheduled,\u201d the company said in a Telegram post.<\/p>\n<p>Bildt, the former Swedish PM, shared a video on X of the attack at Yahodyn station, near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing with Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t our train, but the one just minutes after us by the Polish border crossing,\u201d Bildt said. \u201cIt was evacuated as the Russian drone approached and no one was hurt. Very good safety system. Our train just had an evacuation warning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bildt, Johnson and fellow passengers had been in Kyiv for the Yalta European Strategy conference, an annual gathering of leaders and experts across politics, business, security and media.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This wasn\u2019t our train, but the one just minutes after us by the \uf1f5\uf1f1 border crossing. It was evacuated as the \uf1f7\uf1fa drone approached and no one was hurt. Very good safety system. Our train just had an evacuation warning but could proceed to Dorohusk. The \uf1f7\uf1fa attacks against \uf1fa\uf1e6 are\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/carlbildt\/status\/2099067799565983845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another train, with former CIA Director David Petraeus on board, was still at the station when the drone struck, according to Ukrzaliznytsia.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of casualties on any of the trains.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrzaliznytsia said it \u201cconstantly adjusts train schedules\u201d to guard against strikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning,\u201d Johnson wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring every day \u2014 even on civilian railways,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I don\u2019t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning. What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring every day &#8211; even on civilian railways. So far Putin\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BorisJohnson\/status\/2099158349040214162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, a Russian drone hit a truck less than a mile from Polish territory, according to border guards, forcing the temporary closure of the Yahodyn-Dorohusk crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said it had targeted infrastructure facilitating military cargoes from Europe in Western Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>With the front line largely static, both Russia and Ukraine have intensified long-distance strikes in recent weeks to try to shift momentum in the war.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski described Russia\u2019s increasing attacks on NATO\u2019s doorstep as \u201can escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia has begun targeting Ukraine\u2019s border crossings with its Western allies in recent weeks, part of a growing campaign by both sides to erode the other\u2019s economic infrastructure more than four years into Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/russian-drone-attack-on-station-likely-aimed-for-boris-johnsons-train-ukraine-says\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UK PM Boris Johnson, former Swedish PM Carl Bildt and security advisors from several EU states had purposely left the station, ahead of schedule, shortly before the drone struck.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":331072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331074,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331068\/revisions\/331074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}