Ex-UK PM Boris Johnson, European officials escape Russian drone strike on train near Poland

Former British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and respective elder European officials were caught up successful a information scare aft a Russian drone struck a rider bid locomotive adjacent Ukraine’s borderline with Poland on Sunday.

The incidental occurred successful Ukraine’s Volyn region, astir 2 kilometres from the Polish border, erstwhile the drone deed the locomotive of a rider work travelling connected the Kyiv-Warsaw route.

No injuries were reported, but passengers were evacuated oregon temporarily ordered to permission the bid arsenic Ukrainian authorities responded to the attack.

Johnson was not aboard the bid that was hit. He and different salient Western figures were travelling connected a abstracted bid up of the affected work aft attending the Yalta European Strategy (YES) league successful Kyiv.

The 2026 YES conference, held connected September 11 and 12 nether the taxable “Peace Through Strength NOW!”, brought unneurotic astir 700 participants from 28 countries, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Johnson, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s information advisor Günter Sautter, UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell, erstwhile Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt and elder officials from France, Italy and different European countries.

Johnson aboriginal described the drone onslaught arsenic a “random and s...