Moment Russia attacks Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson passed through station
Video footage has emerged of the moment a Ukrainian train was attacked by Russia - shortly after Boris Johnson passed through the station.
The drone attack on Yahodyn station, on the Polish border, may have been aimed at a train carrying dignitaries including the former Prime Minister and London mayor , the country’s railways operator has said.
The attack hit a train shortly after another carrying the former prime minister had left ahead of schedule.
Mr Johnson had been returning from a major conference in Kyiv along with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt and a number of European security advisers.
The company said the train “had departed the station earlier than scheduled due to real-time adjustments to train timetables necessitated by the constant threat of Russian strikes”.
The moment a Russian drone strike hit the train on the Ukraine-Poland border Supplied It added that former CIA director David Petraeus had been on a different train that was still at the station when the drone struck. No casualties have been reported.
In the wake of the attack, Mr Johnson praised Ukrzaliznytsia staff and passengers as “absolutely heroic” and called for more support for Ukraine.
He said: “I don’t know what warped logic drove (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning.
“What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring every day – even on civilian railways.”
He added: “When are we going to give them the air defences they need? Why won’t we unfreeze Putin’s cash and give it to Ukraine? There is more than 140 billion euro in a Belgian bank account – and about £10 billion in London. Britain could show a lead.”
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Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha described the attack as “barbaric” and said they represented “Putin’s terror ‘knocking’ directly on the doors of the EU and Nato”.
The Conservatives described the incident as a “stark escalation” by Moscow and urged the UK Government to increase defence spending.
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