Poland scrambles war planes as Russia unleashes hypersonic missile barrage and strikes Ukrainian city near NATO border – as Kremlin calls West’s peace talks ‘a road to no-where’
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. In the latest attacks, Russia hit an American factory that manufactures electronics, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister.
Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the regional military administration said: ‘One person was killed and two were wounded as a result of the combined UAV and cruise missile strike in Lviv.’
‘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.
In video footage, a large fire can be seen at the site of the American business, Flex Ltd, which has its main branch in Texas.
The firm produces goods including laptops, game consoles, and some car parts.
An employee at the factory told Kyiv Independent there are around 800 workers on the night shift.
They also added that the firm had robust protocols in place in the eventuality of an air raid.
The company, which entered the Ukrainian company in 2000, launched its 55,000-square-meter plant in Mukachevo in 2012, and employs over 2,600 people.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry said it destroyed ’49 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles’ across multiple regions.
In the latest attacks, Russia hit an American factory that manufactures electronics, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister
Thick smoke could be seen above the building as firefighters battled to put out the blaze
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.
