NATO Fighter Jets Scrambled As Russia Launches ‘Massive Attack’ on Ukraine [Video]

NATO member Poland scrambled fighter jets close to the alliance’s border with Ukraine after Russia launched a “massive” aerial attack on Kyiv’s energy infrastructure overnight.

The Polish military said early on Sunday that “Polish and allied aircraft have begun operating in our airspace” after Russia attacked Ukraine with cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as drones.

Russian attacks have occasionally spilled over into NATO members like Poland and Romania, which borders chunks of western and southern Ukraine, when Moscow has targeted its neighbor’s western regions.

Warsaw’s armed forces “activated all available forces and resources,” including scrambling on-duty fighter jets and putting ground-based air-defense systems and radars on “the highest state of readiness,” the military said. Poland’s military command said in a later statement that the alert ended after Russia finished its strikes on Ukraine.

Moscow launched “a massive, combined attack” of around 120 missiles and 90 drones across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement early on Sunday.