Poland says Russian missile targeting Ukraine’s Lviv region violated its airspace while Kyiv suffers third pre-dawn attack in four days
A Russian missile explodes over Kyiv. Poland says Russia violated its airspace with missiles targeting Lviv region in western Ukraine.A Russian missile explodes over Kyiv. Poland says Russia violated its airspace with missiles targeting Lviv region in western Ukraine.Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv and the western region of Lviv have come under a “massive” Russian air attack, officials have said, and Polish forces have also been placed on heightened readiness.
Sergiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, said the missiles were fired at the capital “in groups” in the third pre-dawn attack in four days. In Lviv, the mayor, Andriy Sadovy, said about 20 missiles and seven Iranian-made Shahed drones were fired at the region. “They targeted critical infrastructure facilities.”
It later said Russia had violated Poland’s airspace with a cruise missile which “entered Polish space near the town of Oserdow and stayed there for 39 seconds”. Farther east, a drone attack on the Samara region caused a fire at a major oil refinery, the latest in a series of strikes against Russia’s energy industry.
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