Russia strikes Warsaw-bound train near Poland border; Western leaders were at station minutes before

Two kilometers from Polish soil, a Russian drone found a passenger train at rest in Yahodyn station — a strike that missed 206 lives by the grace of advance warning, but missed the presence of senior Western diplomats by only minutes. The attack, one of two that day near NATO's eastern edge, did not merely damage a locomotive; it compressed the distance between a continental war and the alliance that has watched it from just across the border. In the silence after the impact, the questions that followed were not only about what was struck, but about how long proximity can substitute for safety