A Russian drone hit a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train at Yahodyn on Sunday. [1] The Guardian filed passengers evacuated and no casualties named. [1] This paper printed the hit. Monday has no new named locomotive in fetched copy. Two kilometres from Poland is still not Article 5.

A later dignitary recast belongs to the edition that owns a named later recast. Reuters filed a truck and station strike near the same crossing. [2] Hanish is a Red Sea archipelago on another page, not this platform. Salalah's postponement is Hormuz, not Yahodyn.

Evacuations that work rarely make headlines; this one did only because of what it nearly hit. The locomotive is repairable. The precedent, drones at NATO's fence, is not.

Border-station strikes carry a different charge than battlefield hits because the audience includes NATO capitals. Moscow knows the geography as well as Kyiv does. The two kilometres are the whole story.

Two kilometres measure the gap between incident and Article; Monday's gap holds. Capitals watch the tape.

Watched tapes stay watched; Monday's two kilometres are not Article 5. NATO capitals are the audience. Battlefield hits are a different charge.

The crossing is still a railway, not a treaty test. Sunday's drone hit a passenger train two kilometres from Poland and named no dead; Monday adds no locomotive. NATO capitals can watch the tape without Article 5 being invoked. Hormuz and Hanish belong to other pages.
This is still a railway, not a treaty test. Article 5 is not this file. Hormuz and Hanish belong to other pages.

Article 5 is not this file. Hormuz and Hanish belong to other pages. Monday's Yahodyn file is a railway, not Article 5.

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow