India, July 10 -- NATO on Wednesday scrambled fighter jets, primarily from Poland, in response to Russia's largest drone and missile attack on Ukraine to date, involving 728 drones (including over 300 Iranian-designed Shahed drones) and 13 missiles, such as Kinzhals and Iskanders. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that its forces took aim at Ukrainian air bases and that "all the designated targets have been hit."

Ukraine, too, fired drones into Russia overnight, killing three people in the Kursk border region, including a 5-year-old boy, the local governor said.

Meanwhile, Poland, a member of NATO, scrambled its fighter jets, the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command wrote in a post on X, platform formerly known as Twitter. It al...