A Russian missile broke through the airspace of NATO member Poland for about 2 kilometers on Sunday morning and then returned to Ukraine, a Polish army spokesman said.

“A cruise missile launched by the Russian Federation’s… air force at night violated Polish airspace,” the military said on ) and stayed there for 39 seconds.”

The Polish military said it was monitoring the situation and “maintaining permanent alert to ensure the security of Polish airspace.”

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.

Ukraine’s air force said on Saturday that its forces had shot down 31 of 34 attack drones launched by Russia on the night of Friday into Saturday, as the country continued 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.