Russia hits Poland-Ukraine border area amid wave of attacks targeting gas stations, Kyiv says

A Russian drone hit a gas station near Ukraine’s border with Poland, Ukrainian authorities said, the latest in a series of targeted attacks as both sides escalate their air war .

Attacks on gas stations have become so common one network has started installing mesh cages around its facilities in the capital, Kyiv, to reduce the impact zone during strikes.

The latest attack, in the small, northwest Ukrainian town of Yahodyn, happened just hundreds of meters from the border with Poland, a Polish official told Reuters and drew swift condemnation from Ukraine.

“Russia’s barbaric strikes at the Ukraine-Poland border crossing point in Yahodyn are not just a continuation of its attacks on our state borders. This is Putin’s terror ‘knocking’ directly on the doors of the EU and NATO,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.

Debris from the attack set fire to the gas station building and several trucks parked nearby, Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne reported.

The border crossing was briefly shut but was operating normally again by 10 a.m. local time Sunday.

The Yadogin border crossing is one of several Ukrainian-Polish border crossings through which a significant amount of military and humanitarian aid is delivered to the country.

In another incident, Ukrainian Railways said that a Russian drone struck a passenger train’s locomotive Sunday morning in Volyn, two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the border with Poland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Russian attack had “deliberately burned a train locomotive and damaged a gas station in a drone strike.”

He said in the past week alone, Russia had fired more than 2,000 drones at Ukraine, many of them jet-powered models, which are faster and more difficult to intercept than regular drones.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military said it had struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Tatarstan republic overnight into Sunday.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said that it struck the TANECO refinery in the city of Nizhnekamsk, in an attack carried out alongside the Security Service of Ukraine and the Main Intelligence Directorate.

Tatarstan officials said two civilians were killed and others injured in a Ukrainian attack on Nizhnekamsk.

乌克兰当局称，一架俄罗斯无人机袭击了乌克兰与波兰边境附近的一个加油站，这是双方空战升级过程中一系列有针对性的袭击中的最新一起。

袭击加油站的事件屡见不鲜，以至于首都基辅的一家加油站连锁店开始在其设施周围安装网状笼子，以减少袭击期间的影响范围。

据路透社报道，一名波兰官员表示，最近发生在乌克兰西北部小镇亚霍丁的袭击事件距离波兰边境仅数百米，并迅速遭到乌克兰的谴责。

“俄罗斯对乌克兰-波兰边境亚霍登口岸的野蛮袭击不仅仅是其对我们国家边界攻击的延续。这是普京的恐怖主义直接‘敲响’欧盟和北约的大门，”外交部长安德烈·西比哈在X上写道。

据乌克兰广播公司Suspilne报道，袭击产生的碎片引燃了加油站建筑和附近停放的几辆卡车。

边境口岸曾短暂关闭，但到周日当地时间上午 10 点已恢复正常通行。

亚多金边境口岸是乌克兰和波兰之间几个边境口岸之一，大量军事和人道主义援助物资通过这些口岸运往该国。

另一起事件中，乌克兰铁路公司称，周日早上，一架俄罗斯无人机在沃伦州击中了一列客运列车的机车，该地距离波兰边境 2 公里（1.2 英里）。

乌克兰总统泽连斯基表示，俄罗斯发动袭击，“蓄意烧毁了一辆火车机车，并在无人机袭击中破坏了一个加油站”。

他表示，仅在过去一周，俄罗斯就向乌克兰发射了 2000 多架无人机，其中许多是喷气式无人机，这种无人机比普通无人机速度更快，更难拦截。

与此同时，乌克兰军方称，他们在周日凌晨袭击了俄罗斯鞑靼斯坦共和国的一家炼油厂。

乌克兰特种作战部队表示，他们与乌克兰安全局和乌克兰国家情报总局联合袭击了位于下卡姆斯克市的TANECO炼油厂。

鞑靼斯坦共和国官员称，乌克兰军队袭击下卡姆斯克，造成两名平民死亡，多人受伤。