Sunday, September 27, 2026
Russian drones struck a Warsaw-bound train near the Ukraine-Poland border on Sunday, minutes after a delegation including Boris Johnson and Carl Bildt had passed through the station. A second strike hit near another crossing point, and Poland recovered a suspected Russian drone from the Baltic. NATO's secretary general says the alliance will increase its support for Kyiv.
On Saturday this paper asked whether the 72-hour halt on strikes against Kyiv and Moscow would be extended, and said a return to strikes the moment the aircraft left would mean the pause was hospitality. The talks ended without a breakthrough. Zelensky expects the war to run into winter. The undertaking runs out at the end of Monday.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday and Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Sunday. To make the two journeys safe, Russia and Ukraine each held off aerial attacks on the other's capital for 72 hours. It was arranged in days, it required no monitors, and it held.