Ground-based air defense systems and a radar reconnaissance system were put “on high alert.”
Poland activated its air force in the early hours of Sunday to secure its airspace following a massive Russian missile attack on neighboring Ukraine, the Polish armed forces said. TASR reports according to the Reuters agency.
“As a result of the massive attack by the Russian Federation using cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones on objects located, among other things, in the west of Ukraine, Polish and allied aircraft began to operate in our airspace,” the operational command of the Polish army on platform X said.
It added that “all available forces and resources were activated” and fighter jets in pairs, ground-based air defense systems and a radar reconnaissance system were put “on high alert.”
Ukraine’s armed forces said they were trying to repel a Russian missile attack in the Lviv region in the west of the country, which borders Poland.
The Russian army launched a massive air attack on several targets in Ukraine. In Kyiv, in the early hours of the morning, explosions were heard after strikes by the air defense there; in the Ukrainian capital and several other areas of the country, they introduced preventive electricity shutdowns.
According to Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko, the target of the Russian attacks on the entire territory of Ukraine was the energy infrastructure intended for the supply of electricity.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said that it was one of the most extensive Russian drone and missile attacks to date “on peaceful cities, sleeping civilians and critical infrastructure”.
Extensive explosions were also reported from other Ukrainian cities Zaporozhye, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Odesa. Ukraine’s air defense said that Russia attacked targets across the country with dozens of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, including strategic bombers.
