WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Authorities say Polish and allied aircraft were deployed in a “preventive” operation in Poland’s airspace because of a threat of drone strikes in neighboring areas of Ukraine. The airport in the eastern Polish city of Lublin was closed. The alert on Saturday lasted around two hours. It came after multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland on Wednesday. That incident prompted NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down and underlined long-held concerns about the expansion of Russia’s more than three-year war in Ukraine.
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