Polish and NATO aircraft were deployed Saturday to protect Poland’s airspace from a potential drone threat in Ukraine, prompting the closure of Lublin airport as precautionary security measures.

The Polish military’s operational command posted on X on Saturday afternoon that ground-based air defense and reconnaissance systems were on high alert.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — France said it’s deploying fighter jets to Poland and Britain announced fresh sanctions on Russia’s oil revenues and war machine Friday as European countries took steps to deter Moscow’s aggression after an incursion by Russian drones into Polish territory.

Smoke was seen rising over buildings in Tosno, a satellite town of St Petersburg, in the early hours of Friday morning Ukraine has struck Russia's largest oil terminal on the Baltic Sea during one of its biggest overnight drone attacks in months.