Poland shoots down Russian drones, Ukraine says Putin testing the West
A Polish Air Force F-16, on August 15, 2025, made an overpass at the National Army Day in Warsaw in Poland, while Dassault Rafale fighter Jets was besieged on both sides.
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Poland’s army was an unprecedented violation “on Wednesday that the country’s airspace was violated by a series of Russian planes.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Polish army said that he had confused his own and NATO air defenses to overthrow the drones entering the airspace in the midst of a widespread Russian attack in Western Ukraine.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in social media post in question NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and the country’s allies were in constant communication.
The incident points out that Poland has first encountered Ukraine in the early 2022 of Russia in the airspace since its full -scale occupation.
For the first time, the Polish region did not interfere with the neighboring conflict: At the end of 2022, a missile in the village of Przewodów, who killed two people, near the country’s Ukrainian border. NATO said Russian forces were ultimately accused.
Russian drone development comes as the European Union on Wednesday Increasing his efforts Since US President Donald Trump returned to the office, to impose the first coordinated transatlantic measures against the Kremlin.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Wednesday in question Russian drones entered the Poland airspace during what he described as a “big” attack on Ukraine. In a mission in X, Russian President Vladimir Putin continued to raise and expand the war and “tested the West”.
Ukrainian official asked the partners to “urgently strengthen” Ukraine’s air defense “urgent strengthening” and sanctions should rise without delay. “
Russia has not yet commented on the incident.
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