Russian Drones Just Miss Former CIA Director: a View From a Train at the Polish Border
Faster jet-powered Geran drones forced repeated evacuations and hit a locomotive, as officials said the rail line is vital to Ukraine’s Europe link.
- On Sunday, a Russian drone struck Yagodyn station in Ukraine, hitting a locomotive near a train carrying Former CIA Director David Petraeus, minutes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson departed for Poland.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense announced it targets 'railway infrastructure facilities in western Ukraine that are used to transport military cargoes from European countries,' according to state news agency TASS.
- Kyiv stated the incident poses a 'constant threat of Russian strikes' by Vladimir Putin, while Ukrainian Railways revealed it was 'quite likely' a targeted attack.
- Condemning the attack, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha revealed, 'This is Putin's terror 'knocking' directly on the doors of the EU and NATO.'
- The station sits about two kilometers from the Polish border, underscoring persistent risks as Ukrainians have endured versions of this threat for more than four years.
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David Petraeus, Boris Johnson narrowly escape Russian drone attack in Ukraine
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson narrowly escaped a Russian drone attack at a Ukrainian train station near the country’s border with Poland. The attack occurred on Sunday morning while Petraeus’s train was located at Yahodyn railway station, and just after Johnson’s train left the location. The […]
By Sophie Tanno, Daria Tarasova-Markina and Lex Harvey, CNN Former CIA director David Petraeus was at a Ukrainian train station just at the time a Russian drone hit a passenger train on Sunday, shortly after a diplomatic train was passing by to
Moscow said it fired on a train used to transport military cargo, but Ukrainian authorities say it could be a diplomatic convoy with authorities, which had the early departure
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