Fear and disruption for Ukraine's rail passengers as Russia escalates drone attacks

Image source, EPA/ShutterstockImage caption, Russian drones started to attack Ukrainian passenger trains at the end of last yearByPaul Adamsdiplomatic correspondent, Reporting fromin KyivUkraine's railways have kept the country running since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. But attacks are intensifying, with more than half of all strikes on locomotives since then occurring this year alone, according to the state-owned operator.Yuliia Ponomarenko, 27, a marketing specialist from Kharkiv, found her journey to Warsaw last month suddenly interrupted just short of the Ukraine-Poland frontier."The border guards started running around and shouting "Run! Get out of the carriages! There's shelling!"A Russian drone had just hit a locomotive near the same border, and a special train carrying former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other European dignitaries, had passed through minutes before.Passengers on Yuliia's train were kept waiting for six hours while the fire up ahead was put out and the line cleared, she says: "We were really lucky that we were delayed a little and it wasn't our train."She is among an increasing number of Ukrainian passengers facing disruption and long de...