Poland scrambles fighter jets over air strike warning in Ukraine

"On the morning of February 7, an air strike alert was issued for the whole of Ukraine. This is repeated periodically and more frequently. These are large-scale attacks. Most of the missiles are flying in a western direction, that is, towards Poland. Although they are aimed at targets on Ukrainian territory, this morning all security systems in Poland are also prepared for combat readiness," Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh said.

Minister Kosinyak-Kamysh explained the Polish activation mechanism as follows: F-16 fighters appeared in the sky, and missile defense and air defense systems were put on alert.

The operational command of the Polish Armed Forces on Platform X announced that "intense activity of Russian long-range weapons has been observed, it is related to missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine".

On the morning of February 7, an air strike alert was issued across Ukraine. Local authorities and media reported explosions and fires in the Kiev, Kharkov, Nikolaev, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Cherkassy regions.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has launched several missile strikes in the past few hours targeting Kiev and other cities. Air defense alert has been activated across Ukraine after the country’s military detected at least nine Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers taking off.