When drones targeted our train journey out of Ukraine

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When drones targeted our train journey out of Ukraine

The drone, long and sleek with four fins and a rear-mounted engine, whistled in low like a small jet.

September 14, 2026 at 6:28 p.m. EDT

28 minutes ago

4 min

*Firefighters extinguish flames at a train carriage damaged by a drone strike Saturday near the Ukrainian border with Poland. (AFP/Getty Images)*

By

Jack Wright

YAHODYN, Ukraine — We thought the danger had largely passed.

As our train traveled west from Kyiv to the Polish border, we’d already been evacuated twice. Word had spread among the passengers that the explosion we’d heard two hours earlier had hit a nearby gas station. The pattern had become familiar among Ukrainians living under escalating Russian bombardment: They attacked infrastructure but not the train itself.

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