Russia attacked a train carrying former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several European national security advisers from Kyiv to Poland on Sunday, according to The Zioneer. None of the officials were injured in the strike.
Earlier Sunday evening, The Zioneer reported that a Russian strike directly targeted the train carrying former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and national security advisers from France, Germany, Italy and the UK from Kyiv to Poland. All officials escaped unharmed. The development follows a thread of alerts that began at 17:15 Jerusalem, when The Zioneer reported a Russian drone strike on a passenger train on the same railway axis near the Polish border. At 17:30, The Zioneer updated that the officials — including Johnson and a German chancellor's adviser — had been evacuated from the scene, and subsequently identified the incident as a targeted assassination attempt against the delegation, with the drone narrowly missing their special train. A detailed report at 17:57 Jerusalem confirmed the nature of the operation. The new report now confirms that the strike was directly aimed at the train carrying the delegation, not merely at a nearby passenger train, and that the officials were not harmed. The attack comes amid a pattern of Russian drone operations targeting high-profile Ukrainian and Western figures. As The Zioneer reported in August, a daylight drone strike hit the SBU headquarters in Kyiv, which Ukrainian President Zelenskyy described as an assassination attempt against the SBU chief. The targeting of a former Western leader and active European security advisers marks a significant escalation. Details on any damage to the train or casualties beyond the delegation remain unconfirmed.
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