NATO member Poland scrambled fighter jets after overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine, Warsaw's military said on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces told Newsweek that "intense long-range aviation activity" from Russia had been detected early on Wednesday.

While the Norwegian jets are primarily in Poland to help defend a key logistics hub bringing materiel into Ukraine, rogue Russian missiles and drones have entered Polish airspace several times since the full-scale invasion began.

On January 15, in the morning, due to the massive missile attack of the aggressor country of russia on the territory of Ukraine, Poland raised its

“We expect active joint work in the spirit of peace through strength with the newly elected U.S. President Trump,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a press conference alongside Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Ukrainian women living in Poland and other countries in the EU have joined Warsaw's Ukrainian Legion for the first time.

NATO has taken over air defenses in Poland from the US just days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a NATO spokesman, with questions looming about the incoming administration’s approach to the alliance and to Ukraine.

Keir Starmer has spoken of "deep bonds of family, of history, and of friendship" on a state visit to Poland - where he unveiled a new security and defence pact.

The Russian missiles sought out targets from the Lviv region in western Ukraine near Poland to Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine bordering Russia. The state energy company Ukrenergo reported emergency power outages in six regions. It often shuts down production during attacks as a precaution.

This year was always going to be important for the European Union, given the start of a new EU Commission mandate, a relatively new

Santhosh, a Thrissur man recruited by the gang, managed to return home in September last year. He said there were six of the them who were taken to Russia by the gang.

Gawkowski cautioned compatriots that any contact with foreign intelligence services is punishable by imprisonment. Read also: Russian Foreign Ministry threatens Poland with attack on NATO's new missile base,