POLAND SCRAMBLES JETS
His comments, in which he urged allies to supply air-defence systems already promised to Ukraine, came ahead of a meeting in Warsaw between Zelenskyy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
A senior Ukrainian official told AFP the leaders would discuss expectations for the upcoming US presidency of Donald Trump and defence.
Poland scrambled fighter jets to secure its airspace, its Operational Command announced on social media, adding that there hand been no violations of its airspace over its three-hour mission.
Officials in western Ukraine, near Poland, said Wednesday that key infrastructure had been targeted or hit.
Svitlana Onyshchuk, regional governor of Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region, wrote on social media Wednesday that critical infrastructure facilities had been targeted in the attack.
Onyshchuk said air-defence systems had engaged incoming projectiles, adding there had been no casualties and that the situation was under control.
But authorities in the western Lviv region, which borders the EU and NATO member, said two critical infrastructure facilities had been hit in the Drogobych and Stryi districts, without elaborating.
“Fortunately, there were no casualties, but there was damage,” governor Maksym Kozytsky wrote on social media.
The Ukrainian national grid operator Ukrenergo temporarily introduced emergency blackouts in seven regions and lifted them after the attack.
Ukrenergo however urged Ukrainians not to use powerful electrical appliances until later in the evening.
Separately, the governor of the eastern Donetsk region said that critical infrastructure had also been hit in his region over the last 24 hours, but did not specify when the strikes had occurred.
Source: CNA
