President-elect Donald Trump will return to office on Monday having promised a peace deal to end Russia's war on Ukraine, still raging after nearly three years of combat.
The Russian missiles sought out targets from the Lviv region in western Ukraine near Poland to Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine bordering Russia. The state energy company Ukrenergo reported emergency power outages in six regions. It often shuts down production during attacks as a precaution.
The Russian military attacked the most extensive underground gas storage facilities in the Lviv region. The timing and location of the attack are not coincidental. Ukraine sought assistance from Poland precisely to protect these installations.
The Russian military attacked the most extensive underground gas storage facilities in the Lviv region. The timing and location of the attack are not coincidental. Ukraine had sought Poland's assistance to protect these installations.
Russia launched scores of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting gas infrastructure and other energy facilities in western regions in a new barrage against the struggling power system in the depths of winter.
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NATO member Poland scrambled fighter jets after overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine, Warsaw's military said on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces told Newsweek that "intense long-range aviation activity" from Russia had been detected early on Wednesday.
While air raid sirens during visits by foreign leaders have sounded before, it is rare for air defenses to actually have to fight off attacking drones.
While the Norwegian jets are primarily in Poland to help defend a key logistics hub bringing materiel into Ukraine, rogue Russian missiles and drones have entered Polish airspace several times since the full-scale invasion began.
Nato warplanes were scrambled overnight because of a major Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.
The insistence by the United States that Ukraine should decrease its mobilization age from 25 to 18 meets with little enthusiasm in the invaded country, which focuses on other ways to deal with its shortages in infantry and sees more modern weapons (not the number of soldiers) as