Poland Sends Fighter Jets Amid Russia’s Strike on Ukraine (Worthy News Radio)

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News

KYIV/WARSAW/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Poland says it has scrambled fighter jets and mobilized “all available forces” on Sunday amid a “massive” Russian missile and drone attack on neighboring Ukraine that killed at least seven people.

There were also deaths reported in Ukrainian strikes on Russia following the heaviest attacks on Ukraine in months.

Blasts reverberated across Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and other cities as Russia stages its most giant missile and drone strikes since August.

More than 200 strikes hit areas, including the capital, Kyiv, with Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as the main focus of Russia’s attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s army fired 120 missiles – cruise missiles and ballistic missiles – and 90 drones, killing and injuring numerous people.

He expressed his “deepest condolences” as it became clear that people were killed in cities Lviv, Dnipropetovsk, Odesa, and Mykolaiv. Dozens have been injured.

POWER STATIONS

Ukraine’s largest private energy provider said the attack had “seriously damaged” equipment at thermal power stations. Emergency power cuts were implemented in the Kyiv, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

In response to the attacks, at least two people were reportedly killed in Ukrainian drone strikes on the Belgorod and Kursk regions inside Russia.

With fighting ongoing, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Russian President Vladimir Putin has not shifted in his thinking about the war in Ukraine.

He spoke as a march against the war underway by the Russian opposition in exile in Berlin. As clashes continued, Poland’s military said that “due to a massive attack by Russia in neighboring Ukraine, operations by Polish and allied aircraft have begun.”

Poland, a member of the NATO military alliance, said it scrambled warplanes “aimed at ensuring security in the areas adjacent to the threatened zones.”

However, it underscored mounting concern that the nearly three-year-old war could turn into a larger international armed conflict.

Already, thousands of North Korean forces are backing Russian forces, and intelligence sources claim Pyongyang has supplied Moscow’s army with long-range rocket and artillery systems, some of which have been moved to Russia’s Kursk region.

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