Apparent violation of countries’ airspace comes as Kremlin launches major missile and drone attack
Two Russian cruise missiles have entered the airspace of Moldova andGen Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces,at 10.18am local time on Friday. They then flew into Romania at 10.33am at the intersection of the state border, before recrossing into western Ukraine, he said.
The incident happened as the Kremlin launched a major missile and drone attack on Friday morning. The air force said “the enemy struck cities and critical infrastructure facilities”. Seven Iranian-made “kamikaze” drones were launched from the Sea of Azov and six Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea, it said.
Mikhail Podolyak, a senior adviser to president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the Russian Federation had been “striking at cities all night and all morning”. He called on Ukraine’s western partners to speed up the delivery of sophisticated systems, including long-range missiles and fighter jets. Vitalii Kim, the governor of Mykolaiv oblast, said drones were spotted headed towards the regional capital, which has been shelled repeatedly since Russia’s full-scale invasion almost a year ago. “Not that many of them,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
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