Russia Invades Ukraine
On NATO's Doorstep: The Checkpoints Being Targeted Along Ukraine's Borders
- By RFE/RL
A Russian drone strike near Ukraine's border with Poland on September 13 marks the latest in a number of attacks on Ukraine's western border checkpoints in recent days.
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A map showing strikes targeting border facilities along Ukraine's western boundary since late August.
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A burned-out truck lies near the crater left by a drone that exploded 800 meters from Ukraine's Yahodyn border crossing with Poland on September 13. The strike came on the same day that another attack drone struck a Warsaw-bound passenger train at a Ukrainian station nearby.
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Ukraine’s Starokozache checkpoint, on the border with Moldova, seen on September 9 after a series of Russian drones struck the facility. Two people were killed in the attack.
Russia claimed to have targeted “logistics facilities” at the crossing that were used for “delivering military cargo into Ukrainian territory.”
Russia claimed to have targeted “logistics facilities” at the crossing that were used for “delivering military cargo into Ukrainian territory.”
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Ukraine’s Orlivka border checkpoint seen after a drone strike on September 1. The border post leads to a vehicle ferry that connects Romania and Ukraine across the Danube River. The site was reportedly struck again on September 6.
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Damage at the Tabaky border crossing between Moldova and Ukraine seen on August 21. Ukraine’s border police say the facility was targeted in a Russian drone strike. The day before the attack, Chisinau reported the explosion of a drone on Moldovan territory near the country's border with Ukraine.
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The engine from an attack drone seen in wreckage at the Tabaky border facility on August 21.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on September 13 that “the coming weeks and months will be a period of very intensive actions on the Russian side.”
He added that intelligence has suggested Moscow would "attempt to disrupt, paralyze, and perhaps even destroy Ukrainian border crossings."
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on September 13 that “the coming weeks and months will be a period of very intensive actions on the Russian side.”
He added that intelligence has suggested Moscow would "attempt to disrupt, paralyze, and perhaps even destroy Ukrainian border crossings."
