Poland, the closest NATO member to the Ukraine-Russia war, scrambled fighter jets and placed its air defenses on high alert early Thursday as Russia launched more than 70 missiles and roughly 280 drones across Ukraine, killing at least eight and wounding dozens from Kyiv to the western city of Lviv.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just returning from this week's U.S.visit with President Donald Trump and the funeral of late Sen.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the barrage exposed a critical shortage of Western-supplied interceptors, particularly against ballistic missiles."The protection of people’s lives depends directly on their willingness" to provide Ukraine with air-defense missiles, Zelenskyy said of Kyiv’s allies.Hours later Thursday morning, the European Union disbursed $4 billion to Ukraine to finance the procurement of more drones, missiles, air defense and fighter jets, according to the European Commission.RUSSIA LAUNCHES BALLISTIC MISSILE ATTACK ON KYIV HOURS AFTER ZELENSKYY WARNS OF MAJOR STRIKEUkrainian firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a market following a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on overnight into Thursday morning.Russian strikes killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen others across Ukraine, authorities said, triggering renewed calls from Kyiv for its allies to send air defense supplies.
(AFP)The disbursement is part of a more than $100 billion loan approved by the EU earlier this year andThis disbursement follows the roughly $3.5 billion installment June 25 and $4.5 billion on June 30.Polish forces detected an unidentified object moving west through the country’s airspace shortly before 4 a.m.An F-16 was dispatched to intercept it, but the object disappeared from radar minutes later.
Authorities subsequently found a crater about 33 feet wide and scattered debris in farmland near Tarnawa-Kolonia, about 1.2 miles from the closest buildings.Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said initial evidence indicated t...