Poland closes airspace, scrambles jets amid ‘massive’ Russian attack on Ukraine
The scrambling of jets and airspace closures are becoming more frequent as multiple NATO countries report drone sightings and other incursions.
Nine people killed as Russia fired more than 470 drones at Ukraine overnight, says ZelenskyyVolodymyr Zelenskyy says nine people have been killed after Russia’s most recent overnight attacks in western Ukraine.
Russia launched 470 strike drones and 48 missiles of various kinds, according to Ukraine’s president.
Zelenskyy said residential buildings were hit in the western city of Ternopil, causing fires, with people still trapped under the rubble.
As well as the nine deaths in Ternopil, dozens of people were injured, he added.
Zelenskyy also reported strikes on the city of Kharkiv as well as on energy facilities in the Ivano-Frankivsk region and in the Lviv region.
Dozens were also hurt in those strikes, according to the president.
The regions of Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Donetsk and Dnipro were also hit, he said.
Following the attacks, Zelenskyy renewed his call for Western partners to supply new air-defence missiles to replenish Ukraine’s stocks. Poland closes airports as explosions heard in western Ukraine
Explosions rocked the western Ukrainian cities of Lviv and Ternopil, it was reported this morning, amid Russian missile and drone attacks.
The full extent of the damage was not immediately clear. There were reports of an impact on a multi-storey residential building in Ternopil and power disruptions in Lviv. Romania scrambles fighter jets over airspace breach
Just like Poland, Romania has also scrambled fighter jets this morning during the Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure near the border.
This came after a drone appears to have breached its airspace, the Romanian defence ministry said.
Radar first picked up the drone signal 8km inside Romanian national airspace in Tulcea County. The drone signal was then picked up near villages in Galati county, but there have been no reports of drones hitting the ground yet.
Romania scrambled two German Eurofighters – part of air policing missions in Romania – and later two Romanian-operated F-16 fighter jets.
The EU and NATO country shares a 650km border with Ukraine and has repeatedly seen Russian drone fragments fall on its territory.
