{"id":437827,"date":"2025-09-20T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/437827\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:36:21","slug":"poland-scrambles-aircraft-in-response-to-russian-strikes-on-western-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/437827\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland scrambles aircraft in response to Russian strikes on western Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Polish and allied aircraft were deployed early on Saturday to ensure the safety of the country&#8217;s airspace after Russia launched strikes on western Ukraine near the border with Poland, the Polish military said. In a post on X, the military said its air defence systems &#8220;been brought to the highest state of readiness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Polish and allied aircraft were deployed early on Saturday to ensure the safety of Polish airspace after <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/russia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Russia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Russia<\/a> launched airstrikes targeting western <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/ukraine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ukraine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Ukraine<\/a> near the border with <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/poland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Poland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Poland<\/a>, armed forces of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/nato\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NATO;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NATO<\/a>-member country said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read more<a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/nato-edge-russia-follows-drone-062410271.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:NATO on edge as Russia follows up drone incursion with Belarus military drills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NATO on edge as Russia follows up drone incursion with Belarus military drills<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At 0340 GMT, nearly all of Ukraine was under air raid alerts following Ukrainian Air Force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FRANCE 24 with Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish and allied aircraft were deployed early on Saturday to ensure the safety of the country&#8217;s airspace after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[15121,18992,148302,2000,299,148303,657,85152],"class_list":{"0":"post-437827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defence-systems","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-allied-aircraft","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-polish-military","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-western-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115235008276157620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437827","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=437827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}