A Polish military spokesman said that on Sunday morning, a Russian missile broke through the airspace of a NATO country for about 2 kilometers and then returned to Ukraine. Poland said on Sunday that it would ask Russia to explain “new violations of airspace.”
“Polish airspace was violated by a cruise missile launched by the Russian Federation Air Force at night,” the military said on 39 seconds.”
According to Reuters, Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski said: “Above all, we ask the Russian Federation to stop its terrorist air strikes against the people and territory of Ukraine, end the war and focus on the country’s own Internal issues.”
Meanwhile, Ukraine said Russia had launched its third major missile attack on the country in the past four days, with the second targeting Kiev. The Associated Press reported that the air warning in Kiev lasted for more than two hours.
Russia shot down 10 Ukrainian missiles over Sevastopol in Crimea on Saturday and seized a village near Bakmut, Russian officials said.
Russia has captured several villages on Ukraine’s eastern frontline due to a shortage of ammunition in Ukraine. On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had captured the village of Ivanivsk. The town of Chasivyar is nearby, and beyond that is the city of Kramatorsk.
While the ground war may be moving slowly, both armies are continuing their aerial assault.
Ukrainian forces shot down 31 of 34 attack drones launched by Russia on the night of Friday and Saturday, the air force said on Saturday, as the country continues to recover from a massive Russian attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Friday. .
The Ukrainian military said the drones were shot down in parts of central, southern and southeastern Ukraine.
Grid recovery slow
However, energy workers were still working to restore power to some Ukrainians, authorities said on Saturday, a day after Moscow launched the largest attack on the country’s power grid in Kiev’s so-called war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on Telegram that the “technical possibility of power supply” had been restored to the worst-affected areas. However, the situation in the Kharkiv region remains difficult and has been particularly hard-hit.
State grid operator Ukrenergo said in a statement that people in the city of Kharkiv and the western Khmelnytsky region were still without electricity.
The Russian attack killed at least five people and knocked out power to more than 1 million people. It also hit Ukraine’s largest dam.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian airstrike in Russia’s Belgorod region on Saturday morning killed two people and injured seven others, its governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. .
“It’s going to be a difficult morning,” Gladkov posted on Telegram.
A Ukrainian drone strike at night in Russia’s Samara region caused a fire at a large oil refinery.
Russian troops have taken control of the village of Krasnoye in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
Some of the information in this report comes from Reuters and AFP.
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