The Kyiv-Warsaw train, which was attacked by Russia on the morning of Sunday, September 13, carried Western officials, in particular one of the closest advisers to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Gunter Sautter, and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Spiegel writes, citing sources..

“Gunter Sautter, foreign policy and security adviser in the Chancellery, was traveling by night train from Kyiv to Poland on Saturday evening. At about 5:00 a.m., the train stopped at the Polish border, and due to drone strikes in the border area, train passengers were evacuated,” the publication writes..

Journalists note that Sautter traveled to Kyiv with security advisers from Britain, France and Italy to meet with Ukrainian officials, and on Saturday attended the YES international security conference.

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In addition to Merz's adviser, the train included security advisers from other European governments, members of the German Bundestag, diplomats and academics, as well as former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“These drone attacks are blind terror against Ukrainian civilians and a dangerous escalation of Putin’s war.”. Russia is becoming increasingly unprincipled and playing with fire right on the border of the European Union and NATO; we must finally put a clear end to this terror,” said member of the German parliament from the Green Party, Robin Wagener, who was also traveling on the train, in a comment to the publication.

In the morning, a Russian drone struck the locomotive of the Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train, which stopped at a distance of about two kilometers from the border.

As Ukrzaliznytsia noted, both passengers and railway workers managed to evacuate in time, and no one was injured.

Subsequently, the company reported that it had already sent trains both to Warsaw and in the opposite direction, but the delays in traffic were quite significant.

For its part, the Polish company PKP Intercity reported that there were no Polish citizens among the 206 passengers, and the train successfully continues its route to Warsaw. The delay in traffic was approximately 370 minutes.