Polish Border Guard
The Polish Border Guard (Straż Graniczna) is a uniformed law enforcement agency subordinated to Poland's Minister of the Interior and Administration. It is responsible for protecting the country's land and sea borders, carrying out passport and customs checks, and combating illegal migration. The service was established in 1991, replacing the former Border Troops, and its commander (Komendant Główny) reports directly to the interior minister.
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Russian drones strike Kyiv-Warsaw train and infrastructure near Polish border, prompting Polish emergency meeting
On the morning of September 13, 2026, Russian drones struck infrastructure near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk international border crossing on the Ukraine-Poland border in Volyn Oblast, damaging a gas station, hitting a truck on the Polish side, and striking the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train about two kilometers from the Polish border. Poland scrambled fighter jets, issued air alerts in Lublin and Podkarpackie voivodeships, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk convened an emergency meeting at the Government Centre for Security, warning that Russian escalation could reach Polish territory in the coming weeks. No passengers or railway workers were injured in the locomotive strike after a Ukrzaliznytsia monitoring group warned the crew in advance and gave an evacuation signal roughly 15 minutes before impact.