“Operations of Polish and allied aircraft in our airspace have begun”wrote the Polish Central Command on the social network
While the situation in eastern Ukraine is “critical”, Volodymyr Zelensky admitted this Saturday, the Polish army announced this Sunday, November 17, that it had taken off fighter planes and mobilized “all available forces and resources” to protect its territory for a “massive attack” Russian missiles and drones against Ukraine.
“Due to a massive attack by the Russian Federation carrying out cruise missile, ballistic missile and drone strikes against facilities in, among other places, western Ukraine, operations of Polish and allied aircraft in our airspace began“, wrote the Polish Central Command on the social network “are intended to ensure security in sectors adjoining threatened areas”he added.
“One of the biggest Russian air attacks” in Russia
In Ukraine, a “massive attack on the electricity system is underway” and Russian forces are “attacking electricity generation and transmission facilities throughout Ukraine”, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Telegram. Explosions rang out in several cities including kyiv, this Sunday around 7 a.m., where calls to take shelter resonated, the Reuters news agency reported.
It is “one of the largest Russian air attacks” since the start of the war, said Foreign Minister Andrii Syhiba.
Russia launched one of the largest air attacks: drones and missiles against peaceful cities, sleeping civilians, critical infrastructure. This is war criminal Putin’s true response to all those who called and visited him recently. We need peace through strength, not appeasement.
— Andrii Sybiha ud83cuddfaud83cudde6 (@andrii_sybiha) https://twitter.com/andrii_sybiha/status/1858028301219987877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The mayor of kyiv reported one injured after a drone fragment fell on a residential building during the night from Saturday to Sunday.
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