NATO fighter jets were scrambled overnight as Vladimir Putin pounded Ukraine with 500 drones and missiles.
Children were reportedly among the casualties after waves of the weapons terrorised civilian and energy targets around the country.
A firefighter at the site of an apartment building in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, overnight[/caption]
A blaze rips through a residential block in Zaporizhzhia[/caption]
Polish and other Allied warplanes took to the skies around Ukraine’s border – owing to the ferocity of the Russian onslaught.
The aerial bombardment included Putin’s nuclear-capable strategic Tu-95MS and Tu-160 bombers.
Russia unleashed dozens of Iskander-M, Iskander-K, Kalibr, Kh-59 and Kh-101 missiles – as well as hundreds of killer Shahed drones.
A statement from Warsaw’s armed forces operational command said: “In connection with another attack by the Russian Federation striking objects on the territory of Ukraine, Polish and allied aviation has begun operating in our airspace.”
The attacks come at the end of a week which has seen dozens slaughtered in what Volodymyr Zelensky described as “vile” strikes.
The Ukrainian president said the ongoing bloodbath is “demonstrating Putin’s true intentions – to continue killings, not to take steps towards peace”.
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