Ukraine-Russia war latest: Boris Johnson condemns Putin’s ‘warped logic’ after his train escapes drone attack

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has hit out at Vladimir Putin after his train was involved in a near miss with a Russian drone close to the Ukraine - Poland border on Sunday.

“I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning,” Johnson said, shortly after he returned from a security conference in Kyiv .

A diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and security advisers from several European Union states had deliberately left the station at Yahodyn ahead of schedule and the foreign dignitaries were on their way back from the conference when a drone struck the line behind them.

A passenger train behind the diplomatic service was damaged in the strike. It had already been evacuated due to intelligence on an impending attack, and no one was harmed.

A drone also hit the engine carriage of a train near the Yahodyn crossing point earlier on Sunday.

Ukrainian forces have managed to wipe out nearly all of Russia’s territorial gains made inside Ukraine since March 2026 through major counteroffensive operations on several sectors of the front, a US-based think tank has said.

According to an assessment by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the battlefield operations by Ukraine have reduced Russia’s net territorial gains to almost zero, citing the counteroffensive operations in Kupiansk, Oleksandrivka, and Lyman directions, disrupting several Russian operational objectives.

These operations have also prevented Russian forces from advancing further into the Dnipropetrovsk region, it said, adding that the fighting eliminated a significant Russian contingent that had threatened the northern flank of Sloviansk and Ukraine’s broader defensive belt in the Donetsk region.

Civilians were killed and injured yesterday as Russia and Ukraine continued to attack each other with waves of drones.

Two people were killed in Russia’s Tatarstan, according to local officials, while Ukrainian authorities reported Russian drone attacks on the Black Sea port of Odesa and a fire near a border crossing with Poland.

Two people were killed and 12 more injured on Sunday as Ukrainian drones struck Nizhnekamsk, a city in Tatarstan, according to the office of regional head Rustam Minnikhanov.

The two civilians died after a drone slammed into a tree near their parked car, the statement staid.

Nizhnekamsk houses a key cluster of oil refineries and petrochemical, rubber and polymer plants, including some of Russia's largest facilities of their kind. Mayor Radmir Belyaev said that a fire had broken out “at one of the city’s enterprises,” without giving detail.

Boris Johnson has hit out at Vladimir Putin after a Russian drone targeted the railway line he was travelling on.