NATO fighter jets scrambled as Putin launches horror attack on Ukraine | World | News
NATO warplanes took off overnight as Russia launched major attacks on Ukraine early on Saturday. Ukraine’s air force said Kiev was targeted by missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, and regions in the northeast and south of the country were also attacked.
Poland mobilized warplanes in response to attacks on Sunday, a day before critical peace talks between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. The US President is preparing to welcome his Ukrainian counterpart in Florida, who wants to put an end to the war that is approaching its fifth year. Local authorities in Kiev said at least eight people, including a 16-year-old boy, were injured in attacks on the city.
There were explosions in Kiev for hours as ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles hit the capital.
The attack began in the early hours of Saturday morning and continued at dawn.
Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said two multi-storey residential blocks in different parts of the city were hit.
The Emergency Service of Ukraine also reported strikes on industrial and residential buildings in the Kiev region.
Emergency teams rescued a person who was under the rubble of a collapsed house in the Vyshhorod region.
Two airports in Rzeszów and Lublin in southeastern Poland, near the Ukrainian border, were temporarily closed due to the strike.
Poland confirmed that the fighter jets took off shortly after 2 a.m. and their mission ended around 7 a.m.
While American and Spanish aircraft based in the region supported the Polish jets, the Dutch army also provided assistance.
Warsaw Operations Command said Poland’s airspace was not violated.
This came a day after NATO ally Romania scrambled warplanes in the early hours of the next day over Russian attacks on southwestern Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s forces targeted Odessa and surrounding energy and port infrastructure facilities near the mouth of the Danube River.
Large flames were seen at an electrical facility in Port Izmail, just hundreds of meters away from Romania.
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