Poland activates aircraft amid Ukraine air raid alerts
A NATO source told Reuters that Russian drones had entered the Poland airspace shortly after midnight (08:00 Wednesday Aest), and the first indicators argued that it was a deliberate attack.
A NATO spokesman said that the NATO plane has made “potential threats için for the first time in the allied airspace. Polish F-16 fighters, the Netherlands F-35S, Italian Early Warning Aircraft and NATO Cairair fuel supply planes participated in the operation.
The spokesman added that the NATO council would meet on Wednesday for a regular session and discuss the response to the drone attack.
French President Emmanuel Macron added that the drone attack on Poland was “simply unacceptable ve and will soon talk to NATO chief Mark Rutte.
Last Sunday, a Russian air strike in Kiev is flying a Shahli drone.Credit: Bloomberg
Iz We will not compromise the security of our allies, Mac Macron wrote.
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas said that early symptoms claimed that the incident was deliberate and that the war has been described as “Russia’s most serious European airspace violation” since the beginning of 2022.
“The EU stands in full solidarity with Poland. Russia’s war is increasing, it does not end. Moscow should increase the cost, strengthen the support of Ukraine and invest in Europe’s defense,” he said.
Kallas, NATO and Polish Foreign Minister in contact with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and said that he was following the developments.
The Polish army warned that the efforts to find the drone accident areas are continuing and that the people of the people should not touch the debris or pieces.
A drone or similar object hit a residential building in Wyryki in the east of Poland, but the local mayor told the news channel TVP to the Polish police and the Polish police, Eastern village Czosnowka, a damaged drone, he said.
Firefighters are trying to save the remains of a drone hit near Czosnowka in the east of Poland.Credit: AP
Russia’s RIA State News Agency said that Russian diplomat does not provide any evidence that Poland is of Russian origin.
“We see the accusations as unfounded. No evidence that these drones are of Russian origin,” Andrey Ordash, the accusations of Russia in Poland, said.
‘Moscow is always pushing the boundaries’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian forces sent 415 drones to Ukraine in recent attacks and more than 40 navigation and ballistic missiles.
He said that at least two of the Russian drones entering Poland use the Belorusian airspace, and the “about two dozen” drones could enter the Poland airspace as part of a larger group flying along the Ukraine and Belarus border.
“Moscow always pushes the limits of what is possible, and if he does not face a strong reaction, he will remain at the level of new promotion,” he said.
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“Today there was another climbing step-rus-aranian HAHEDS [drones] NATO works in Poland’s airspace. Not only a HAHED, which can be called an accident, but also at least eight strike aircraft for Poland. “
Russia’s Iran’s HAHED-136 drone version is a small, Delta-wing plane directed by the GPS to reach a war title by GPS up to 50 kilograms. The propeller -guided drone has approximately 2500 kilometers.
Zelensky said that the incident was “an extremely dangerous precedent for Europe, and that he called for more harsh sanctions against Russia from Western allies, although he did not call US President Donald Trump or made a direct criticism of American policy.
“The Russians should feel the results. Russia should feel that the war cannot expand and end.”
The Russian Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comments.
The emergency on Poland came after hitting a wave of Russian missiles and a strike that killed 24 elderly people who gathered pension in a village in Ukraine in Ukraine.
‘Unened military activity’
Polish and NATO aircraft, Ukraine Air Force on social media, Russian drones entered the Poland airspace after warning that the midnight was mixed on Tuesday.
The flight tracking accounts in X reported that the NATO plane operates on Poland, including F-35 fighters. Flightradar24 data showed that a Dutch Air Force A330 tanker aircraft was used for fuel supply to a lawyer jets used for fuel supply to the fighter aircraft.
Notifications sent to the US Federal Aviation Administration’s website, the country’s largest and four airports in Poland, including the Chopin Airport in Warsaw, were closed because of “unplanned military activity to ensure state security”.
The Chopin airport reopened early on Wednesday, warned that the airport’s statement about X, but that disruptions and delays could last during the day.
On one night, most of the Ukraine, including the western regions of Volyn and Lviv, which are far from the Polish border and the Russian-Ukraine war front, are far from the Russian-Ukraine war front, according to Ukrainian Air Force data.
Police and medical officers evacu 86 -year -old Olha Trush from Yarova, a village hit by a dozens of Russian air strikes in Sloviansk in Donetsk region on Tuesday.Credit: AP
In a separate development, he announced that he would close his border with Belarus at midnight on Thursday as a result of the Russian -led military exercises in Belarus among the tensions between Poland, Minsk and Warsaw.
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The large -scale military exercises of Russia and Belarus, known as the “Zapad” exercises, expressed their security concerns in neighboring NATO member states in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Zapad-2025 (“West 2025”) will be held in Western Russia and Belarus.
NATO also holds a drill next to the border. Poland and Lithuania began to practice this month and allied troops participated.
Russian troops stepped on a grinding attack in most of the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine.
