The Polish Armed Forces Staff announced on Monday that it has taken off several combat aircraft to oversee the country’s airspace due to a “intense” Russian attack in western Ukraine.
“Due to the intense air attack of the Russian Federation in the territory of Ukraine, Polish and allied aircraft began to operate in the Polish airspace In the morning, ”announced the Staff Polish on the social network X.
“The service fighters were positioned in pairs and the air defense and radar recognition systems based on the land reached the maximum alert level”Added the staff, specifying that these are ‘preventive nature’ actions.
This type of intervention is common when Russian missiles or drones target regions of western Ukraine bordering NATO member Poland.
“Dozens” of drones and Russian missiles have reached the region of Rivnein western Ukraine, on Sunday night, said the mayor of the city, Oleksandr Tretyak, on the Telegram social network. According to the regional governor, Oleksandr Koval, Rivne had “a very difficult night” due to a “massive enemy air attack”, which wounded at least one civilian.
The city of Kiev was also the target of an attack that damaged a building, according to the head of the city’s administration, Tymour Tkatchenko.
Russia criticizes NATO
Russia considers the NATO a “Instrument of aggression and confrontation” And the right to freedom of action reserves after the end of the Russian moratorium on missiles, the Kremlin spokesman said today.
“The NATO, after taking the mask, demonstrates in every possible way of its nature of an instrument of aggression and confrontation,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov during the daily telephone press conference.
The statement arises at a time when NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte should appeal to the member countries of the organization to Increase the air defense and anti -lonely skills at 400%, According to France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
“What is at stake is that European taxpayers are spending their money on the fight against a threat that they say from our country. It is no more than an illusory threat,” he said, also quoted by the Spanish news agency Efe.
The spokesman also alluded to the possible survey of the Russian moratorium on the installation of short and medium range missiles in response to NATO’s actions. He referred to the limited limitations by Moscow after Washington unilaterally abandoned the short and medium-range missile elimination treaty (INF), signed in 1987 by the United States and the Soviet Union in 2019.
“In one way or another, Russia will have to respond to these expansionist and aggressive actions by NATO and NATO member countries, new members of NATO, well known to us, who are very close to our borders,” said Peskov, quoted by the Russian Interfax agency.
Peskov answered a question about the possibility of Russia installing missiles in vulnerable world regions after the end of the Russian moratorium on intermediate and short -range missiles. In this situation, Russia will maintain “freedom of action,” Peskov said.
“Of course, at one point, when nothing limited our actions, we will maintain this freedom of action for ourselves,” said President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman.
Since invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Russia saw Finland and Sweden became members of NATO, the acronym in English that the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty is known.
Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Riabkov told the official Tass agency that The Russian moratorium is coming to an endsince the West did not appreciate the Moscow measure. Riabkov said that, under the administration of President Donald Trump, the United States intends to intensify efforts to implement intermediate and short reach missiles.
“At this time, we do not see any changes … in the United States plans about the implementation of terrestrial missiles of intermediate and short reach in various regions of the world,” he said.
According to Riabkov, Washington has given “practical steps” in the implementation of the program, which demonstrates that “this activity will only increase.”
The diplomat said that the “containment of Russia in post-trated infracted reality” was not appreciated or corresponded by the United States and its allies.
“Consequently, we declared open and directly that our previous unilateral moratorium on the installation of intermediate and short soil reach missiles is reaching its logical end,” he said.
Riabkov also said that Moscow will have to react to the appearance of any missile threats, as determined Vladimir Putin. “Decisions about the specific parameters of this reaction fit our military and, of course, to Russian leaders,” he added.
The United States plan to install missiles in Germany from 2026. In the 2024 NATO summit, Germany, France, Italy and Poland agreed to jointly develop cruise missiles with a range of more than 500 kilometers.
Ukrainian drones reach Russian military aerodrome
For its side, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 49 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted on Sunday night in the border regions with Ukraine and Chuvashia, about 600 km east of Moscow.
Ukrainian Army drones reached last night the Savasleika Military Aerodrome in the Nizhny Novgorod region of the Russian Federation, where they regularly take off Mig-31K aircraft, which carry kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
“The Russian striker is using [o aeródromo] To attack Ukrainian territory, ”says the state-general statement reporting the attack. The note adds that, according to information obtained by Ukraine, one Mig-31 and another Su-30 or Su-34 Russian were damaged in the attack.
The General Staff had announced before it reached an antenna factory of ‘Drones’ Shahed in an attack on the enemy rear last night. The factory concerned also produces other components for aerial pump navigation systems and other types of Russian weapons.
