Ukraine said Sunday that Russian overnight strikes had wounded at least nine people, as Poland scrambled planes to secure its airspace.
An air raid alert was in place over the Kyiv region, with the local military administration saying Russia was attacking with drones and missiles.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of the city of Kyiv, said the Ukrainian capital was under a ‘massive’ assault and urged people to stay in shelters.
‘In total, there are five injured’, Klitschko said on the Telegram social media platform, adding that they had been hospitalised.
The governor of the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region said Russian strikes there had wounded at least four people.
‘Once again, residential buildings and infrastructure are being hit. Once again, it is a war against civilians’, Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said.
‘There will be a response to these actions. But the West’s economic blows against Russia must also be stronger’, Yermak said.
Poland’s armed forces said on X that they had scrambled fighter jets in its airspace and put ground-based air defence systems on high alert in response to the Russian strikes in Ukraine.
The moves were preventive and aimed at securing Polish airspace and protecting citizens, especially in areas adjacent to Ukraine, the forces said.
Several European countries have accused Russia of violating their airspace in recent weeks, in what NATO has seen as a test of its resolve.
Russia denied on Saturday planning to attack any NATO nation and warned the alliance against taking firmer responses to the alleged incursions.
Kyiv and Moscow also said on Saturday that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — Europe’s largest — had been off the grid for four days, stoking fears of a potential nuclear incident.
