Poland said it scrambled aircraft early on Sunday to ensure its air safety after Russia launched airstrikes on Ukraine, with Ukrainian officials reporting missiles and drones raining down on the Lviv region near the Polish border.
“Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace, while ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest state of readiness,” Poland’s operational command said in a post on X.
Eastern-flank NATO members are on high alert after Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace in September and drone sightings and air incursions, including in Copenhagen and Munich, have led to chaos in European aviation.
Lithuania’s airport in Vilnius was closed for several hours overnight after reports of a possible series of balloons heading towards the airport late on Saturday.
According to flight tracking service Flightradar24, early on Sunday, commercial flights were using routings typically used when Poland’s Lublin and Rzeszow airports near the border with Ukraine were closed.
Reuters could not independently verify the Flightradar24 report.
All of Ukraine was under air raid alerts for several hours overnight, with Ukraine’s Air Force issuing most dire warnings of missile and drone attacks for the Lviv region.
People take shelter inside an underground parking during Russian drone and missile strikes in Lviv. (Picture: Roman Baluk/Reuters)Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv, a western Ukrainian city about 70km from the border with Poland, said the city’s air defence systems were engaged heavily in repelling first a drone and then a Russian missile attack.
As of 5.30am London time, parts of the city were left without power and public transport was yet to start running, with Sadovyi saying on the Telegram messaging app that it was “dangerous to go out into the streets.”
A late Saturday night attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia, the capital of the broader frontline region of Zaporizhzhia, left one person dead and nine injured, Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor said on Telegram.
“Apartment blocks and private houses were damaged, cars burned,” Fedorov said. “Windows were blown out, yards wrecked.”
More than 73,000 customers in the southeastern region were left without power, he added.
With Reuters
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