A Russian strike has hit a truck just 800 metres from Polish territory, temporarily disrupting one of the main crossings connecting Ukraine with NATO. The attack remained inside Ukraine.
The strike hit near the Dorohusk–Yahodyn crossing on the Ukraine–Poland border.
Polish border guards put the impact point roughly 800 metres, or half a mile, from Poland.
The crossing temporarily stopped operating before reopening.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said it was targeting infrastructure used to transport European military cargo into Ukraine.
Moscow has increasingly attacked western Ukrainian border infrastructure linking the country with Poland, Romania and Moldova as it tries to disrupt military and commercial supply routes.
This strike did not hit Poland or NATO territory.
But the distance matters.
For four years, NATO countries have supplied Ukraine while trying to keep the war physically outside the alliance.
Russia is now targeting the arteries carrying those supplies increasingly close to NATO’s borders.
At Dorohusk, the gap was less than a kilometre.
That leaves little room for a missile that misses its target, an interception that sends debris in the wrong direction or any other battlefield error.
A deliberate Russian attack on Poland would create an entirely different crisis.
Nobody is claiming that happened here.
The danger is that escalation does not always begin deliberately.
NATO has spent four years drawing a line between supporting the war and entering it.
On Saturday, a Russian strike landed 800 metres from that line.
Source: Reuters, 13 September 2026.
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