Overview
- The drone strike, which hit on Sunday, September 13, struck the locomotive of a Kyiv–Warsaw passenger train in Volyn roughly 2 kilometres from the Polish border and set the engine on fire.
- Passengers were evacuated without reported injuries and the train later reached Warsaw with a multi‑hour delay, with Polish operator PKP Intercity saying about 206 people had been on board.
- A privately chartered diplomats’ train carrying western figures was in the same station area and was partially evacuated, and Ukraine’s railway company said that train could have been the intended target.
- Poland held a crisis session, temporarily evacuated people at two border crossings and warned the incident raises the risk of spillover to NATO territory as Kyiv and Moscow continue to exchange strikes.
- Moscow said it was targeting railway lines used to move military cargo from Europe while Kyiv confirmed counter‑strikes on Russian energy sites, a pattern that increases attacks on transport and energy infrastructure and complicates regional security for civilians and travellers.