Train carrying Boris Johnson and other dignitaries 'is evacuated in Ukraine after Russian drone strike hits passenger service behind'

Boris Johnson was aboard a private train that was given an evacuation warning after a nearby locomotive was hit by a Russian drone attack.

The former British prime minister was travelling back towards Poland after attending a major security conference in Kyiv when the train stopped at around 5am amid a drone alert.

Mr Johnson is understood to have escaped unharmed, with an all-clear given shortly afterwards when no further drones were detected.

Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, who was also on board, said passengers on the train received an evacuation warning.

But it is not clear if anyone had to leave the train before it then escaped across the border to NATO territory in Poland.

He revealed that it was the train immediately behind them that was hit by the Russian drone.

'This wasn't our train [that was hit], but the one just minutes after us by the [Polish] border crossing,' said Bildt.

'It was evacuated as the [Russian] drone approached and no one was hurt.'

The incident came after another train travelling on the Kyiv-Warsaw route was struck by a Russian drone near the Polish border.

The locomotive was hit but, according to Ukrainian railway authorities, nobody was injured. The train was carrying 206 people, who were seen running in fear after the attack.

Boris Johnson has exclusively shared pictures of the drone strike with the Daily Mail.

It was also carrying Günter Sautter, one of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's closest foreign and security-policy advisers, as well as security advisers from Britain, France and Italy, German MPs, diplomats and academics.

Mr Johnson and the other officials had been in Kyiv for the 2026 annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy, an international security conference where Western officials held discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government about possible peace negotiations with Russia.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said a Russian drone had also struck the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing, one of the country's most important links with the European Union.

Footage circulating on social media appeared to show trucks on fire at the crossing, while Ukrainian media reported that a petrol station had also been hit. There were no immediate reports of casualties and the Polish military confirmed the attack.

The attack came just two kilometres from the Polish border, according to Ukrainian railway officials, raising concerns about Russian strikes reaching increasingly close to NATO territory.

Russian drones have increasingly targeted Ukrainian rail infrastructure, with Ukrainian Railways accusing Moscow of carrying out systematic attacks on the network.

The state-owned operator said its monitoring centre and staff were 'on high alert' following nationwide attacks, warning passengers of possible evacuations, delays and diversions.

Robin Wagener, a Green Party member of the German Bundestag who was also aboard the special train, described the attack as a dangerous escalation.

'These drone attacks are blind terror against Ukrainian civilians and a dangerous escalation in Putin's war,' Wagener told Der Spiegel.

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