Poland scrambles jets as Russia launches massive aerial assault on Ukraine
Poland and allied military aircraft were mixed early on Saturday after Russia launched a major air strike in Ukraine, including strikes close to Poland and Western border.
Hours after NATO He caught three Russian jets Estonia’s airspace and a series of Russian airspace violations in Europe and Eastern countries.
“Ukraine, Poland and the Allied Aviation Zone strikes in the Airspace because of the activity of the long -range aviation of the Russian Federation began to operate in our airspace,” he sent the Polish army X.
“Duty Fighter pairs were mixed and radiolation discoveries, as well as ground -based air defense systems, have reached the maximum ready -made state,” he said.
Kiev’s Air Force said that Russia started 579 attack planes and various puppet drones in Ukraine until Saturday. Moscow also launched eight ballistic missiles and 32 navigation missiles in the attack.
“All night Ukraine was under a major attack by Russia,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. He added that three people were killed and dozens of more injured in the bombing.
“This kind of strike is not a military obligation, but Russia is a deliberate strategy to terrorize civilians and destroy our infrastructure,” he said. “Therefore, a strong international reaction is needed.”
According to regional authorities, eight people were killed in Russian attacks in the last 24 hours and at least 32 injured.
‘Brazen’ attack
On Friday, NATO caught three Russian Mig-31 fighter planes violating Estonia’s airspace in Estonia’s “unprecedented-like-like” event.
The country’s Foreign Ministry said that jets entered the Estonia airspace without permission via the Gulf of Finland and left a total of 12 minutes. The Estonian Army said that the transponders of the jets were closed and that they did not have flight plans and potentially endangered other planes.
Italian F-35 fighters should talk NATO said NATO responded to the attack in Estonia, as part of the Eastern Sentry operation, in addition to Sweden and Finnish plane.
F -16 fighter aircraft depicted during the military exercises of Poland and NATO in Poland on September 17th – Attila Husejnow/stick/SIPA
Russia insisted that the jets entered the Estonian airspace, that the flight was “strictly dependent on international rules” and “without violating the borders of other countries”.
Estonia requested Consultations of NATO after the violation, which is the mechanism that allows any member to form a formal problem to NATO’s principle political decision -making organ. A meeting will take place at the beginning of next week.
Russian drones were violated Both the Poland and Romania airspace encourages NATO allies to promise to support the defenses of the block of the block on the eastern wing.
At the beginning of this month, NATO Hunter jets dropped more than one Russian plane that violated the Poland airspace during an attack on Ukraine.
The operation was opened for the first time by NATO since Russia’s full -scale occupation of Ukraine, which began in February 2022, for the first time. The military alliance condemned Moscow’s “absolutely dangerous” behavior.
Recent attacks come in the midst of a stagnant peace process that focuses on providing long -term security guarantees for Kivi of Ukraine’s allies.
Zelensky said he would meet with US President Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York next week and evaluate whether such guarantees are close to finalization.
Trump’s efforts to organize a joint summit with Zelensky and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have failed.
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