# NATO’s Rutte says drone strikes near Polish border show Putin’s ‘desperation’

https://mins.news/en/item/57885

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-09-14 15:04 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/drone-strikes-near-polish-border-show-putins-desperation-natos-rutte-says/

> NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Russian drone strikes near NATO territory showed Vladimir Putin’s “desperation” and growing recklessness. The overnight assault hit a gas station and a Kyiv–Warsaw passenger train near Ukraine’s border with Poland. Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said Warsaw was treating the incident with the “utmost seriousness.”

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