Poland made its planes take off to ensure aerial safety after Russia has launched a large -scale attack with drones that affected several cities of western Ukraine, including Lopoli, near the Polish border.
Zelensky: “50 missiles and 500 drones from Russia: 5 dead”
The new massive night attack of the Russian forces caused at least 5 deaths in Ukraine, to report it was the president Volodymyr Zelensky. “Tonight Ukraine was again under a Russian combined attack: more than 50 missiles and about 500 attack drones,” he wrote on Telegram. In the sights “the regions of Lopoli, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odessa and Kirovohrad”, he explained, and of the “about 10 people wounded due to the attack, unfortunately five died”.
“Polish and allied planes are operating intensely in our airspace, while the air defense systems and radar reconnaissance based on the ground have reached the highest level of operational readiness” said the operational command of the Polish Armed Forces in a post on X where we talk about actions “of a preventive” nature that “aim to protect the airspace and the citizens, especially in the areas adjacent to the threatened region”.
The Ukrainian military aeronautics launched the alarm for the approach of Russian drones in different regions of Ukraine. In Zaporizhzia a person is dead and at least nine others were injured following the joint attacks, reported the head of the regional military administration Ivan Fedoor.
The regional military administration also reported that some neighborhoods of the city remained without electricity and water due to attacks. Even a part of Lopoli is without electricity following the Russian attack, the mayor Andriy Sadovyi reported on Telegram. Sadovyi had previously stated that public transport to Lopoli was blocked due to the massive enemy attack.