LONDON — NATO fighter jets have been scrambled and air protection programs placed on alert in Poland in response to Russia’s newest in a single day drone and missile strikes in Ukraine, the Armed Forces Operational Command in Warsaw stated in a sequence of social media posts.
“Fighter jets have been scrambled and ground-based air protection programs in addition to radar reconnaissance programs have reached a state of readiness,” the command stated in a submit to X.
“These actions are of a preventive nature and are aimed toward securing the airspace and its safety, particularly in areas adjoining to the threatened areas,” it added.
The alert lasted for just below 4 hours, after which the command stated the fighters and air protection programs had “returned to plain operational actions.” No violations of Polish airspace have been noticed, a follow-up submit to X stated.
This file photograph exhibits a Polish Air Power F-16 fighter jet throughout the 62nd NATO Tiger Meet Drill at Antonio Ramirez air base in Gioia del Colle, Italy, on Oct. 9, 2023.
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The Spanish and Czech air forces have been concerned within the response, the command stated, as have been German and Dutch air protection programs.
Ukraine’s air power stated Russia launched 653 drones and 51 missiles — 17 of them ballistic missiles — into the nation in a single day. The air power stated 585 drones and 30 missiles have been shot down or suppressed.
Drone and missile impacts have been reported throughout 29 areas, the air power stated.
The assault — which consisted of 704 air assault weapons — was Russia’s largest in a single day bombardment because it launched 705 munitions on the night time of Oct. 29, in keeping with Ukrainian air power information analyzed by ABC Information.
The biggest assault of the struggle up to now came about on the night time of Sept. 6 and concerned 823 air assault automobiles. The most recent in a single day assault is barely the fourth of Russia’s full-scale invasion up to now by which the variety of air assault automobiles used surpassed 700.
Emergency responders work on the web site of a warehouse that was struck throughout an evening of Russian missile and drone strikes in Novi Petrivtsi, outdoors Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 6, 2025.
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Ukraine’s State Emergency Service stated that Kyiv and Cherniev have been among the many areas focused by the in a single day assaults. In Kyiv, no less than three individuals have been injured, the service stated in posts to Telegram.
Within the Black Sea port metropolis of Odesa, regional Gov. Oleh Kiper stated an power facility was broken, leading to disruptions to the provision of energy and heating. Some 9,500 prospects have been with out heating and 34,000 with out water as of 9:30 a.m. native time.
There was additionally injury to power infrastructure within the Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk areas, in keeping with authorities there.
“Russia continues to ignore any peace efforts and as an alternative strikes essential civilian infrastructure, together with our power system and railways,” Ukrainian International Minister Andrii Sybiha stated in a submit to X.
An explosion of a drone lights up the sky over Kyiv, Ukraine, throughout a Russian assault on Dec. 6, 2025.
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“This exhibits that no choices to strengthen Ukraine and lift stress on Russia may be delayed,” Sybiha added. “And particularly not below the pretext of peace course of.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a submit to social media that power amenities have been “the principle targets of those strikes.”
“Russia’s purpose is to inflict struggling on hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians,” the president wrote. “That’s precisely why extra stress is required. Sanctions should work, and so should our air defenses, which implies we should keep assist for these defending lives.”
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, stated its forces downed no less than 121 drones on Friday night time into Saturday morning.
ABC Information’ Morgan Winsor, Natalia Kushnir, Natalia Popova and Anna Sergeeva contributed to this report.
