People gather near a site hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Starovoitove, Volyn Region, Ukraine, September 13, 2026, in this screengrab taken from a social media video. Photograph: Sylwester Uchanski/Reuters
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Poland and Ukraine have denounced Russian strikes close to the Polish border as an “escalation” in the war after a train was targeted while former British prime minister Boris Johnson and ex-CIA director David Petraeus were at a border station nearby. The escalation should lead to allies to “double” their support for Ukraine, Poland’s foreign minister said in Kyiv. “This was just a few hundred metres from the Polish border, this affects the safety of my countrymen,” Radoslaw Sikorski said. Polish prime minister Donald Tusk chaired an emergency meeting in Warsaw after the strikes, warning he expected Russia to escalate the war “in the coming weeks”. He added: “We cannot exclude that the escalation will also affect our territory … I hope not.”
