Lvvv, Ukraine (Reuters), the Poland member, said he stirred early planes on Sunday to guarantee his air safety after Russia launched air attacks in Ukraine, and Ukrainian officials reported missiles and drones that rain in the Lviva region near the Polish border.
“Polish and allied airplanes are operating in our airspace, while air defense systems and radar recognition on land have taken to the highest state of preparation,” said the Poland operating command in an X publication.
NATO members in the East of NATO are on a maximum alert after Poland knocked down the alleged Russian drones in their airspace in September and drones and aerial incursions, even in Copenhagen and Munich, they have taken chaos in European aviation.
Lithuania airport in Vilnius was closed for several hours during the night after reports of a possible series of balloons that go to the airport on Saturday night.
According to the Fumtradar24 flight tracking service, early on Sunday, commercial flights used typically used routes when the Lublin and Rzeszow airports in Poland were closed near the border with Ukraine.
Reuters could not independently verify the FlightRadar24 report.
There were no immediate notices on the website of the United States Federal Aviation Administration on possible flight interruptions in Rzeszow and Lublin. But Eurocontrol, which supervises the European air traffic control, warned of high delays in airspace administered by Poland due to the “situation of Ukraine.”
All Ukraine under the threat of attack
At 0300 GMT, the Ukraine Air Force said that the entire country was under the threat of new Russian missile attacks, after alerts of air attacks and warnings of drone and missile attacks.
Andriy Sadovyi, mayor of Lviv, a western city of Ukraine at 70 km (43 miles) from the border with Poland, said the missiles approached the city after air defense systems were already largely to repel a Russian drone attack.
Reuters witnesses said that the coup of what rang as operating air defense systems came from all directions.
There were no immediate reports of potential damage and there were no comments from Russia.
Both parties have been launching air attacks throughout the war aimed at destroying the infrastructure considered crucial for the general efforts of war, including energy and transport facilities.
(Lidia Kelly report in Melbourne and Andriy Perun in Lviv; Jamie Freed edition)
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