00:00A Sunday morning turned into utter chaos after Ukraine's state rail operator confirmed that a Russian drone strike had hit
00:06a passenger train at Yahudin Station, less than four miles from the Polish border.
00:12Shocking video posted to Telegram showed the moment of impact as train passengers rushed to safety down the station platform
00:19as a fireball erupted down the tracks behind them.
00:22According to the BBC, Ukrainian officials said a warning was issued right before the strike, which allowed passengers to evacuate.
00:29Politico reported that no one was injured in the attack.
00:32Although the strike was not deadly, a slew of EU officials have denounced the bombing.
00:37Not only was the strike a few miles from NATO territory, but a diplomatic train from Kiev carrying high-profile
00:43dignitaries had just left the station.
00:45The unlikely timing of the strike led Ukraine's rail operator, Ukra Lininsia, to speculate in a Telegram post that it
00:52was, quote,
00:52very probable that the diplomatic train was the, quote, Russian drone's intended target.
00:57They added that the diplomatic train had left the station early because of, quote, constant threats of Russian strikes.
01:03According to NBC News, the Warsaw-bound diplomatic train was coming from the Yalta European Strategy Conference in Ukraine's capital
01:10of Kiev and was carrying former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
01:15former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, and several other security advisors from other EU countries.
01:20The Guardian also reported that former CIA director David Petraeus was aboard another train at the station when the strike
01:27hit.
01:28Petraeus told the New York Times that the drone strike was, quote, terrifying.
01:32Johnson later scribbled an X post about the strike, writing,
01:34I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this
01:40morning.
01:41What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring
01:46every day.
01:47According to the Russian state-owned news agency, TASS, Russia's defense ministry said that strikes in western Ukraine were used
01:54against railway infrastructure facilities that were being used to, quote, transport military cargoes.
01:59Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sibiya told members of the press that the Russian train strike meant that Putin's war, quote,
02:06literally knocks at NATO's and the UAE's doors.
02:09Several other EU officials said the drone strike was meant to intimidate western allies from supporting Ukraine's fight.
02:15I think about that it is clearly meant to scare western countries from supporting Ukraine, from going to Ukraine to
02:26show support.
02:47But NATO's secretary-general, Mark Root, made it clear that the strike not only strengthened the West resolve to support
02:52Ukraine, but inspired NATO to increase support.
02:55The strike on a peasant train in Ukraine yesterday shows how desperate Putin has become.
03:02He thinks that he can stop us from supporting Ukraine and that he can undermine our unity.
03:10He is wrong.
03:11Our answer is to increase support to Ukraine so it has what it needs to defend itself.
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