The train that was hit by a drone was travelling from Kyiv with more than 200 passengers on board when it was struck two kilometres from the border.
Another drone was shot down 800 metres from the Polish border, Prime Minister Donald Tusk says. No one was reportedly injured in the attack.
Sweden's former Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Carl Bildt writes on X that he travelled on a train that ran on the same route.
"It was not our train, but the train that arrived just a few minutes after us at the border crossing," he writes, explaining that his train was warned to evacuate but was able to continue to the border at Dorohusk.
"The attacks on Ukraine are intensifying," Bildt writes, but also notes that his train had "a very good security system."
Boris on board too
The former Swedish prime minister was not the only high-ranking politician on board the train. According to the Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former CIA director David Petraeus and several former leaders of EU countries were also on board.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia deliberately targeted the train and a gas station on the border.
"It is precisely to prevent these attacks from spreading further into Europe that Ukrainian men and women are fighting every day, sacrificing their lives and preventing the aggression from spreading," he said, according to AFP.
Russia: Military transport
Russia claims in a statement that it has struck "railway infrastructure" in western Ukraine that is "used for military freight from Europe."
"This is Putin's terror 'knocking' on the doors of the EU and NATO. Russian barbarians are standing at your doorstep, dear partners," writes Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha on X .
Donald Tusk says, according to AFP, that Russian attacks will intensify in the coming weeks and that "this escalation could affect Poland."
The Dorohusk border crossing was temporarily closed but has now reopened. The attacks at the border were part of a larger Russian attack on Ukraine overnight.
