{"id":75407,"date":"2025-09-20T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:31:11","slug":"poland-scrambles-aircraft-after-russia-launches-massive-attack-on-ukraine-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75407\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland scrambles aircraft after Russia launches \u2018massive\u2019 attack on Ukraine \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy<\/a> said on Saturday that Russia<\/a> launched a major drone and missile attack on Ukraine<\/a> overnight, killing three people and injuring dozens.<\/p>\n

In a statement on the Telegram app, Mr Zelenskiy said Russia launched about 580 drones and 40 missiles targeting Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure, civilian production companies, and residential areas in different regions across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll night, Ukraine was under a massive attack by Russia,\u201d Mr Zelenskiy said. \u201cEvery such strike is not a military necessity but a deliberate strategy by Russia to terrorise civilians and destroy our infrastructure.\u201d <\/p>\n

In the central city of Dnipro, a missile with a cluster munition hit a residential apartment building, Mr Zelenskiy said. <\/p>\n

One person was killed, and at least 26 people were injured in Dnipro, regional officials said. They shared pictures on the Telegram app showing a damaged apartment building with a destroyed roof and smashed windows, people getting medical help and rescuers working on the site. <\/p>\n

Two people were killed in the Chernihiv region in the north and the Khmelnytskyi region in the west of the country, regional officials said. Russia appears to have changed its tactics in its air attacks on Ukraine and now launches swarms of hundreds of drones in one strike, compared with dozens early in the war. <\/p>\n

With air alerts lasting about 11 hours in some regions during the night, the Russian attacks were carried out in two waves, the military analysts said. Ukrainian air defence shot down 552 drones and 31 missiles, the air force said. <\/p>\n

Polish and allied aircraft were deployed to ensure the safety of Polish airspace as Russia\u2019s attack also targeted the west of Ukraine near the border with Poland, the Polish military command said. <\/p>\n

\"AA French Rafale fighter jet takes off during a joint mission with Polish F16s at an air base in Minsk Mazowiecki on September 17th. Photograph: Thibaud Moritz\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cPolish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace, while ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest state of readiness,\u201d the operational command said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

Mr Zelenskiy reiterated his appeal to Kyiv\u2019s western allies, calling for more air defence supplies to be sent to Ukraine and stronger sanctions on Russia. \u201cUkraine has proven it can defend itself and Europe, but for a reliable shield, we must act together,\u201d he said. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russia launched a major drone and missile attack on Ukraine overnight,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,4897,379,550,7,8,2264,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-75407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-north-atlantic-treaty-organisation-nato","19":"tag-poland","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-ukraine-crisis","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}