A Russian Shahed drone struck a fuel station near the Yahodyn border crossing with Poland, an attack confirmed by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command, which placed the impact roughly four kilometers from the frontier.
Russian forces destroyed a gas station adjacent to the Yahodyn border crossing with Poland on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian monitoring service eRadar, which reported a Shahed-type drone strike on the facility during daylight hours.
The explosion was subsequently confirmed by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, marking a rare direct acknowledgment by Warsaw of a Russian strike so close to NATO territory. The Polish Armed Forces Operational Command stated the drone hit occurred approximately four kilometers from the Polish-Ukrainian border.
The Yahodyn crossing serves as a critical logistics corridor for humanitarian aid, commercial traffic, and refugee movement between Ukraine and the European Union. The strike on civilian energy infrastructure near an international border crossing raises concerns about escalation risks for NATO's eastern flank.
Polish authorities have not yet specified whether air defense systems engaged the drone or whether the strike resulted in casualties. Ukrainian officials have not issued a separate statement on the incident as of Tuesday afternoon.
The incident follows a pattern of Russian attacks targeting Ukrainian border infrastructure, though strikes within kilometers of a NATO member state's frontier remain relatively uncommon and draw heightened diplomatic scrutiny.
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