WARSAW, Nov 17, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Poland said it had scrambled fighter jets
and mobilised all available forces on Sunday in response to a "massive"
Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine.

"Due to a massive attack by Russia, which is carrying out strikes using
cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones against sites located, among
other places, in western Ukraine, operations by Polish and allied aircraft
have begun," Poland's Operational Command posted on social media platform X.

These measures were "aimed at insuring security in the areas adjacent to the
threatened zones."

Ukraine's Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on the Telegram platform
that "a massive attack on our energy system is ongoing" and that Russian
forces were "attacking electricity generation and transmission facilities
throughout Ukraine".

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person was wounded by falling debris
from a drone on a residential building.

Local authorities and Ukrainian media reported numerous explosions throughout
the country including in Zaporizhzhia, Odessa and Mykolaiv in the south and
Chernigiv in the north.