Red Horizon Leg 1

Leg 1 — EPKK → EPRZ Kraków, Poland → Rzeszów, Poland

An emergency redeployment flight moving communications specialists toward eastern command sectors after overnight attacks cripple regional infrastructure.

The war began before sunrise.

No warning sirens.

No official declaration.

Only explosions.

Kraków Airport lost external communications shortly after 04:17 local time when multiple infrastructure strikes hit radar stations and electrical substations across southeastern Poland. Military traffic flooded emergency frequencies while civilian aircraft diverted blindly through darkened skies.

Inside the terminal, people still believed it might be a cyberattack.

Inside the hangars, military crews already knew better.

Your aircraft departed beneath total blackout conditions carrying communications specialists, encrypted relay equipment, and emergency routing data toward Rzeszów near the eastern frontier.

The highways below glowed with endless headlights moving westward.

Refugees already fleeing before anyone fully understood what was happening.

And far beyond the eastern horizon, flashes of distant artillery illuminated the clouds.