Senior Western Officials Were At Ukrainian Train Station Before Russian Strike

There were security advisers from several EU member states and former European leaders on board

Ukraine's state railway operator said top Western figures -- including former prime minister Boris Johnson and ex-CIA director David Petraeus were at a west Ukrainian train station shortly before Russia struck a Warsaw-bound train there. 

"Shortly before the locomotive was hit at the Ukrainian-Polish border, a diplomatic train was at Yagodyn station," Ukraine's rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia said in a statement. 

A Russian drone strike hit a railway line in Ukraine as Boris Johnson travelled by train from Kyiv to Poland.

The former UK P.M was woken by guards at 5am on Sunday and told to prepare for evacuation, after a train behind his was struck in Volyn, just over a mile from the… pic.twitter.com/wk5Uvx6WBA

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"There were, among others, security advisers from several EU member states and former European leaders on board, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In another train that was at Yagodyn station at the very moment of the attack was former CIA Director David Petraeus."

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