utor: Tyler Durden
update (1950ET): Sky News, citing Ukrainian air force, claimsthat Russian drones flew into Poland's airspace, threatening the city of Zamość, which lies around 40 miles from the Ukrainian border. any first sources talk of "waves" of drones, but this remains unclear. To Reuters:
Poland put its air defence on advanced alert after Ukraine's air force warned that Russian drones crossed Polish airspace.
The Polish Armed Forces reported on Wednesday early in the morning local time that all essential procedures were launched to safe national airspace, as Russia carried out night attacks on Ukraine on a large scale.
"Polish and allied aircraft operate in our airspace, and ground air defence and radar systems have reached the highest level of readiness" - informed Operations Command. It identified measures as preventive and aimed at protecting citizens in regions bordering Ukraine.
However, in the very first message of the Polish army breach of Poland's airspace by Russia was not specified:
This is not the first time that Russian drones violate Polish airspace, which forces fighters to choice up, as well as to search for places of disaster or landing on the Polish side of the border. Some unconfirmed reports say that Poland was intercepted.
Attracting the attention of American congressmen and possibly the White House:
And open origin monitoring sites evidence increased alliance activity over east Poland...
In the last fewer minutes, the civilian Aviation Authority has issued for east Poland another NOTAM, this time for the Lublin Airport, informing that the airport is unavailable due to "unplanned military activities related to the safety of the state".
If there has actually been a wave of Russian unmanned aircraft crossing the Polish border, we can anticipate many NATO aircraft to take part in the action. For now, however, it is unclear what is happening in the sky over east Europe.
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The coming winter may be 1 of the harshest for Ukrainians, given that Russia has importantly intensified national drone and rocket attacks, frequently aimed at energy and energy infrastructure – most likely in consequence to Ukraine's continued cross-border attacks on oil retention in Russia.
At night the Ukrainian energy ministry reported that Russian forces hit a thermal power plant in the Kiev Oblast, resulting in local power and gas interruptions. While during the war in a large part of east Ukraine frequent mass power outages occurred, in the case of the capital this happens little often.
"The nonsubjective is obvious: to origin even greater difficulties for the peaceful population of Ukraine, leave Ukrainian homes, hospitals, kindergartens and schools without light and heat" – It was written by the Ministry on the Telegram.
This occurred just after the largest single air strike in the 3 and a half years of conflict, which ended on Sunday with a major government building fire (ministerial offices). The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that the latest attack aimed at Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Ukrainian Energy Network Operator Ukrenergo reported later that respective power plants in this country were hit. "The emergency repair work is in progress, and most of the recipients had the power restored by Monday morning" – it was written.
Gas infrastructure was besides damaged, resulting in more than 8,000 properties in 8 settlements have been disconnected from power supply.
Serhij Kowalenko, president of Ukrainian energy company Jasna, wrote on the X portal. "For respective weeks the enemy has been hitting the energy strategy objects in various regions". He besides warned: "Of course no 1 knows what will happen this fall, but given the fresh strikes, There are no peculiar reasons for optimism".
Gazprom president Alexey Miller besides warns against cold winter full of unnecessary suffering for the EU. Russian media published his fresh comments as follows::
citing Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) data, Gazprom reported that by the end of August only 2 thirds of the gas collected from the European warehouses last winter had been supplemented after 5 months of injection. The deficit of 18.9 billion m six was the second largest recorded on that day.
Gazprom, erstwhile the main supplier to the EU, reduced its exports to the EU drastically 3 years ago, following western sanctions and sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines. Russian gas exports accounted for 40% of the full block supply before escalation conflict and the imposition of unilateral sanctions by Brussels.
"We are now seeing the situation getting worse and worse.. That's what we were talking about. It'll be another year, and where else can he go? If it's a average cold winter, it'll become a real problem." – said Miller of the Russian news agency TASS on Sunday in the spheres of the east economical Forum.
Several Ukrainian attacks on LNG pipeline infrastructure in Europe took place this summer. besides this weekend another large Russian oil refinery She was in flames after direct attacks of Ukrainian drones.
The attack sparked 2 active fires in the main refinery in Riazana, southeast of Moscow, and witnesses heard explosions early in the morning and at night last Friday, after which large flames and thick smoke were observed over the confederate outskirts of the city.
