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NATO Aircraft Scrambled Amid 'Busy Night' of Russian Strikes

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Moscow launched ballistic missiles and drones at targets across Ukraine, prompting a collective NATO response.

NATO aircraft were scrambled Thursday overnight as Russian drones and missiles again struck targets inside Ukraine, reaching as far west as the Khmelnytskyi region less than 200 miles from the Polish border.'Polish and allied aircraft' took to the skies above southeastern Poland as Russian ballistic missiles and Shahed attack drones targeted Ukrainian cities, per a report by Warsaw's Armed Forces Operational Command.

Interceptions occurred over the regions of Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Kirovohrad.Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on Telegram that the attack drones were launched from close to the port city of Yeysk in Russia's southwestern Krasnodar Krai region and from occupied Crimea. Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles were also fired from Tu-95 bomber planes flying over Russia's Saratov Oblast, he wrote.

 

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