NATO fighter jets scrambled over Russian attack as thousands in Poland get emergency alert - AOL

NATO fighter jets were scrambled over Poland and Latvia after Russia carried out attacks on Ukrainian territory, as tensions draw closer to the alliance’s eastern flank. In Poland, thousands in 24 districts of Lublin Voivodeship— including Lublin, Chełm, Zamość and Biała Podlaska—received a mobile-phone emergency alert warning of a Russian air attack and that the situation was being monitored. Allied and Polish planes were scrambled for the fourth time in seven days. In Latvia, NATO Baltic Air Policing fighters were also scrambled amid a yellow-level warning for Krāslava municipality, near Belarus, without any reported incursions. Separately, Lithuania closed Vilnius airport for three hours after a “hybrid attack” involving border-crossing “weather balloons.” The article also cites deaths in Ukraine’s Mikolaiv, Dnipro and other cities, plus a reported drone attack on the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery in Samara.