Poland scrambles aircraft as Russia bombs near its boarder with Ukraine

POLISH and allied aircraft were deployed in a “preventive” operation in Poland’s airspace on Saturday over the threat of drone strikes in neighbouring areas of Ukraine, with the airport in the eastern Polish city of Lublin also closed, authorities said.The alert, which lasted around two hours, came after multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland on Wednesday, prompting Nato to send fighter jets to shoot them down and underlining long-held concerns about the expansion of Russia’s three-year-plus war in Ukraine.