NATO has scrambled jets after missiles and drones rained down on a city near the Polish border.
Explosions rocked the city of Lviv overnight on Saturday while strikes in Zaporizhzhia killed at least one person and wounded nine others.
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Poland’s operational command said: “Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace, while ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest state of readiness.”
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi reported a series of explosions in the city.
“Another round of explosions can be heard in Lviv. Air defenses are active. Stay in a safe place!” he wrote.
Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, said: “Lviv. Stay away from windows.”
According to monitoring channels, 12 Shahed drones were heading towards Lviv and encircling the city.
Ukraine said a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia had killed one person and injured nine other people.
Eastern-flank Nato members are on high alert after Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace in September.
And drone sightings and air incursions, including in Copenhagen and Munich, have led to chaos in European aviation.
Lithuania’s airport in Vilnius was closed for several hours overnight after reports of a balloons heading towards the airport on Saturday night.
According to flight tracking service Flightradar24, early on Sunday, commercial flights were using routings typically used when Poland’s Lublin and Rzeszow airports near the border with Ukraine were closed.
All of Ukraine was under air raid alerts for several hours over Saturday night, with the most devastating strikes hitting the Lviv region.
The mayor of the city of Lviv Andriy Sadovy described the barrage as a “massive enemy attack”.
He said: “After the Russian shelling, several fires are still burning in the city.
“It was a very difficult night. Let’s hold on!”
Following the lethal strikes in Zaporizhzhia, local authorities said: “Apartment blocks and private houses were damaged, cars burned.
“Windows were blown out, yards wrecked.”
The region also saw power cuts which left some 70,000 residents without electricity.
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