Russia rains drones and missiles on western Ukraine, Poland scrambles aircraft

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -NATO member Poland, Russia’s air strikes in Ukraine after starting air security to ensure air security in the early hours of Sunday, and Ukrainian officials said that the Lviv region was raining near the Poland border.

“Polish and allied aircraft operate in our airspace, ground -based air defense and radar discovery systems have been brought to the highest preparation situation.” He said.

East-Flank NATO members, in September in Poland after the suspicious Russian drones hit high alarms, and Copenhagen and Munich, including drone landscapes and air strikes caused chaos in European aviation.

Lithuania’s airport in Vilnius was closed for several hours after reports of a series of possible balloons going to the airport late on Saturday.

Flight monitoring service was used early on Sunday, when commercial flights were typically used when Lublin and Rzeszow airports of Poland were closed close to the Ukrainian border.

Reuters could not independently confirm the Flightradar24 report.

The US Federal Aviation Administration’s website had no immediately notifications about possible flight outages in Rzeszow and Lublin. However, EuroControl, which controls the European air traffic control, warned high delays in the airspace managed by Poland due to “Ukrainian status”.

The whole of Ukraine is under the threat of attack

In 0300 GMT, Ukraine Air Force is under threat of new Russian missile attacks and follow -up for hours of air strike warnings and warnings of drone and missile attacks.

Andriy Sadovyi, the Mayor of Lviv, a Western Ukrainian city of about 70 km (43 miles) from the Polish border, said that the air defense systems were already busy after being busy intensively to repay a Russian drone attack.

Reuters witnesses said that the struck of what seems to be like air defense systems in the operation comes from all directions.

There was no potential damage report and there was no comment from Russia.

Both sides are launching air strikes during the war, which aims to destroy the infrastructure, which is considered to be very important for general war efforts, including energy and transportation facilities.

(Editing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne and Andriy Perun in Lviv;