LONDON — NATO fighter jets had been scrambled and air protection methods 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 mentioned in a collection of social media posts.
“Fighter jets have been scrambled and ground-based air protection methods in addition to radar reconnaissance methods have reached a state of readiness,” the command mentioned in a publish 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 mentioned the fighters and air protection methods had “returned to plain operational actions.” No violations of Polish airspace had been noticed, a follow-up publish to X mentioned.
This file photograph reveals a Polish Air Power F-16 fighter jet through 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 had been concerned within the response, the command mentioned, as had been German and Dutch air protection methods.
Ukraine’s air drive mentioned Russia launched 653 drones and 51 missiles — 17 of them ballistic missiles — into the nation in a single day. The air drive mentioned 585 drones and 30 missiles had been shot down or suppressed.
Drone and missile impacts had been reported throughout 29 places, the air drive mentioned.
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, based on Ukrainian air drive information analyzed by ABC Information.
The biggest assault of the struggle thus far passed off on the night time of Sept. 6 and concerned 823 air assault automobiles. The newest in a single day assault is barely the fourth of Russia’s full-scale invasion thus far wherein 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 mentioned that Kyiv and Cherniev had been among the many areas focused by the in a single day assaults. In Kyiv, a minimum of three folks had been injured, the service mentioned in posts to Telegram.
Within the Black Sea port metropolis of Odesa, regional Gov. Oleh Kiper mentioned an vitality facility was broken, leading to disruptions to the availability of energy and heating. Some 9,500 clients had been with out heating and 34,000 with out water as of 9:30 a.m. native time.
There was additionally harm to vitality infrastructure within the Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk areas, based on authorities there.
“Russia continues to ignore any peace efforts and as an alternative strikes important civilian infrastructure, together with our vitality system and railways,” Ukrainian Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha mentioned in a publish 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 reveals that no choices to strengthen Ukraine and lift stress on Russia might be delayed,” Sybiha added. “And particularly not underneath the pretext of peace course of.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in a publish to social media that vitality services had been “the principle targets of those strikes.”
“Russia’s intention is to inflict struggling on tens of millions of Ukrainians,” the president wrote. “That’s precisely why further stress is required. Sanctions should work, and so should our air defenses, which suggests we should keep help for these defending lives.”
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, mentioned its forces downed a minimum of 121 drones on Friday night time into Saturday morning.
ABC Information’ Morgan Winsor, Natalia Kushnir, Natalia Popova and Anna Sergeeva contributed to this report.
