Russian forces conducted a drone strike against a train leaving Ukraine and infrastructure at the Yahodyn border crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border.
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Russian forces conducted a drone strike against a train leaving Ukraine and infrastructure at the Yahodyn border crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border on September 13
Ukrzaliznytsia believes the target of a Russian attack near the Polish border, in which a locomotive on another train was hit, may have been a train carrying Western politicians and security advisers.
The jet-powered mesh drone that attacked the locomotive near the Ukrainian-Polish border was detected by a dispatcher from the Central Monitoring Group.
At 8:27 a.m., the Polish side recorded another strike on a spur line in Ukraine. According to information received from Ukrainian authorities, a drone struck the locomotive of a freight train consisting of empty tank cars.
Earlier on Sept. 13, Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) reported that a Russian drone struck the locomotive of a Kyiv–Warsaw train only about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from Ukraine's border with Poland.
Russian forces conducted a drone strike against a train leaving Ukraine and infrastructure at the Yahodyn border crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border on September 13 as European officials were crossing the border.
The available reporting strongly supports the conclusion that the Kremlin conducted a precision drone strike intended to injure or kill European government officials and former officials as they were leaving Ukraine.
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