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Al Jazeera reported on 13 September 2026 that Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory killed four people, while Russian forces carried out strikes on Ukrainian targets close to the country's western border with Poland. The exchange underscored how both sides were continuing long-range strike campaigns deep behind the front line rather than confining fighting to the contested east and south. Ukraine has used domestically produced long-range drones against Russian rear areas, while Russia has intensified attacks on Ukraine's western regions, which host logistics routes for Western military aid. The proximity of the Russian strikes to Poland, a NATO member, was the element that drew the most international attention, coming amid heightened alliance sensitivity to airspace violations and stray drones. The reporting mattered because it illustrated the risk that the war's aerial dimension could spill across the NATO frontier, either through miscalculation or debris, and it reinforced Kyiv's argument for stronger air-defence support. Casualty figures on both sides in such attacks are typically drawn from local officials and are difficult to verify independently.