Russian Drone Hits Kyiv-Warsaw Passenger Train Near Polish Border

Key facts

• On September 13, 2026, a Russian drone struck a Kyiv-to-Warsaw passenger train near the Polish border, about two kilometres from Poland, causing no casualties.
• Poland's PKP Intercity said the train carried 206 passengers and was delayed by more than six hours before continuing to Warsaw after border checks.
• Poland's Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said one drone hit near the Dorohusk-Yagodyn border crossing while the other struck the passenger train.
• Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of escalating the conflict.
• Russian attacks on September 13, 2026 killed at least two people in Kramatorsk, and 20 people including two children were wounded in a second day of attacks on Odesa.
• The Kremlin said three-way negotiations with Ukraine and the United States could take place in October, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying such a possibility was not ruled out.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was willing to meet Putin at the G20 summit in Miami in December, but Peskov said that was impossible, repeating Moscow's demand that a meeting occur only in the Russian capital.
• Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov said on September 13, 2026 that there was still no coordinated package on which negotiations could be based.