Nato scrambled its warplanes overnight after Ukraine was battered by the heaviest strikes of the war with Russia so far.
Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory was hit by 741 hypersonic missiles and kamikaze drones on Tuesday night – the most in one night since the conflict began in 2023.
Lutsk and Ternopil in the west of Ukraine were some of the heaviest-hit targets, sparking an emergency response from Nato forces in neighbouring Poland.
A statement from Warsaw’s armed forces command said: ‘In connection with the attack by the Russian Federation’s air forces carrying out strikes on objects located in the territory of Ukraine, Polish and allied aviation has begun operating in Polish airspace.’
It comes just hours after US president Donald Trump slammed Vladimir Putin’s ‘bulls***’ as peace talks have failed to progress.
Trump has also u-turned and pledged to resume sending weapons to Ukraine after the country was ‘hit very hard’ by the Kremlin’s missile and drone strikes in recent days.
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