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Polish army takes off fighter jets to protect its territory during ‘massive attack’ by Russian missiles and drones on Ukraine

10:49 a.m.: Update on the situation – The Polish army announced on Sunday that it had taken off fighter planes and mobilized “all available forces and resources” to protect its territory during a “massive attack” by Russian missiles and drones against Ukraine. According to Ukrainian authorities, the strikes marked “one of the largest air attacks” on Moscow, and targeted the already fragile national energy network, triggering power outages in three regions.

Two people were killed in the south of the country, according to a provisional report.

Planes deployed to “ensure security” Poland, a NATO member country and faithful ally of kyiv, announced early this Sunday morning to deploy planes in its skies, facing the intensity of the ongoing operation 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 have begun,” wrote the Polish Central Command on the social network

08:12: Ukrainian energy operator DTEK announces “emergency power cuts” in the kyiv region and two regions in the east of the country, following the “massive” Russian attack on the country’s energy network .

“Emergency power cuts in kyiv, kyiv region, Donetsk region, Dnipropetrovsk region,” DTEK wrote on Telegram. “Emergency power cuts in kyiv, kyiv region, Donetsk region, Dnipropetrovsk region,” DTEK wrote on Telegram.

07:31: In Ukraine, Energy Minister German Galushchenko indicated on Telegram that a “massive attack on the electricity system is underway”, and that Russian forces are “attacking electricity generation and transmission facilities in all of Ukraine.

07:26: In Ukraine, the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitchko, reported one person injured by the fall of a drone fragment on a residential building. Local authorities and Ukrainian media reported numerous explosions across the country, notably in the south in Zaporizhia, Odessa and Mykolaiv, as well as in Cherniguiv.

07:11: The Polish army has just announced that it has taken off fighter jets and mobilized “all available forces and resources” to protect its territory during a “massive attack” by 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 have begun,” the Polish Central Command wrote on the social network X.

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