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When I was in Ukraine a few weeks ago, Polish fighter jets were also scrambledpublished at 03:44 British Summer Time<\/p>\nWhen I was in Ukraine a few weeks ago, Polish fighter jets were also scrambledpublished at 03:44 British Summer Time<\/p>\n
03:44 BST<\/p>\n
Every night, Ukrainians brace themselves for air attacks from Russian drones and missiles. Some nights are worse than others – but Ukraine never escapes the aggression. The air raid sirens that ring out across cities are the soundtrack to most Ukrainians\u2019 lives now.<\/p>\n And every morning, the Ukrainian military release the numbers \u2013 how many drones and missiles attacked, where they hit \u2013 and who got hurt.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a familiar pattern but the air assaults are getting more brazen. <\/p>\n Earlier this week saw the biggest-ever air assault on Ukraine, with more than 800 drones. A government building was targeted. <\/p>\n Now, drones have been flown to the far west of Ukraine – not the first time this part of the country has been hit, but the frequency is increasing. <\/p>\n Just a few weeks ago when I was in Ukraine, Polish fighter jets were scrambled because of drones close to the border. <\/p>\n Now Warsaw’s airport has been shut, it’s a clear sign of the escalation and the panic as Iranian-made Shahed drones infringe on Polish airspace. <\/p>\n Those talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska – not even four weeks ago – feel like a lifetime away. So too does the prospect of peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I was in Ukraine a few weeks ago, Polish fighter jets were also scrambledpublished at 03:44 British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-412103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115177850452455352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/43005c0d-9d37-4447-be0e-e1540bd94275.jpg.webp.webp\")
Katy Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Ukraine](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0044cb79-334c-4ec8-a602-5e8f2d32aeba.jpg.webp.webp\")
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