Poland said on Thursday that warplanes have been scrambled to protect its airspace as Russia staged its biggest hypersonic missile barrage on Ukraine since Putin met Trump last Friday.
The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said on X: ‘In connection with the activity of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, conducting strikes on Ukrainian territory … aircraft of the Polish Air Force and allied aviation are operating in Polish airspace.’
Russian attacks on western Ukraine killed one person and wounded multiple others, officials in the country said Thursday as diplomatic efforts to end the three-year war grind on.
Moscow and Kyiv have kept up their aerial attacks on each other as world leaders including US President Donald Trump push for a ceasefire.
‘One person was killed and two were wounded as a result of the combined UAV and cruise missile strike in Lviv,’ said Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the regional military administration.
‘Dozens of residential buildings were damaged,’ he added in a Telegram post.
Russian fire also wounded 12 people in the city of Mukachevo, near the border with Hungary and Slovakia, the city council said.
‘Five patients are being treated in the hospital, and one more was transferred to the regional hospital,’ the council wrote on Facebook.
Poland said on Thursday that aircraft have been scrambled to protect its airspace as Russia staged its biggest hypersonic missile barrage on Ukraine since Putin met Trump
Russian attacks on western Ukraine killed one person and wounded multiple others, officials in the country said
In Lutsk, Mayor Igor Polishchuk reported ‘an enemy attack that was conducted by UAVs and missiles’.
‘As of this moment there are no injuries or fatalities,’ he said.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry said it destroyed ’49 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles’ across multiple regions.
The ministry did not detail any casualties or damage.
The latest cross-border fire follows Trump’s flurry of diplomacy this month aimed at ending the war.
The US president met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska, before bringing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders to Washington for separate talks.