- The drone crashes in the retired house in the Polish village oriental.
- The Polish Prime Minister says he was the closest they were to open conflicts.
- The NATO chief calls the absolutely reckless, dangerous incident.
Poland on Wednesday, Poland killed Russian drones suspected in its airspace with the support of military aircraft of its NATO allies, the first time that a member of the Western military alliance is known to have shot during the Russian war in Ukraine.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told Parliament that it was “the closest that we were to open the conflicts since the Second World War”, although he also said that he had “no reason to believe that we are on the verge of war”.
Polish F-16 F-16 fighter, Dutch F-35s, Italian AWAC surveillance planes and NATO outdoor supply planes rushed in an operation to shoot drones that started entering Polish air space on Tuesday evening and continued to come until the morning, officials announced.
A drone broke the house in two floors of Tomasz Wesolowski in the Polish village of Wyryki-Wola at 6:30 am when he was at the bottom of the news on TV foray.
The roof was destroyed and the debris was scattered across the room. Wesolowski told Reuters that the house “should be demolished”.
A blackened place in a black field elsewhere in south-eastern Poland showed where other drones had fallen.
Moscow denied the responsibility of the incident, with a superior diplomat in Poland saying that drones came from the management of Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said its drones had led a major attack on military facilities in western Ukraine, but that it had not planned to reach any target in Poland.
The leaders of France, Great Britain, Germany and Canada were among the leaders of NATO to condemn the Russian foray into strong terms.
There was no immediate Washington statement. The American general of the Air Force serving High Commander of NATO, Alexus Grynkewich, said that the Alliance had “responded quickly and decisively to the situation, demonstrating our capacities and our determination to defend the Allied territory”.
European leaders, who recently attempted to persuade US President Donald Trump to join them to tighten sanctions against Russia and stimulate kyiv support, said it justified a collective response.
Poland said 19 objects had entered its airspace during a great Russian air attack on Ukraine, and that it had shot those who were threatening.
Tusk described the incident as “large -scale provocation” and said that he had activated article four of the NATO Treaty, under which members of the Alliance may require consultations with their allies.
Andrey Ordash, Russia’s accusation of affairs in Poland, was cited by the Ria State news agency as an appellant “baseless” accusations “and said that Poland had given no evidence that the slaughtered drones were of Russian origin.
The Kremlin refused to comment directly on the incident, but spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the EU and NATO “accuse Russia of daily provocations. Most of the time without even trying to present at least a kind of argument”.
During the incident, the operational command of the Polish armed forces urged residents to stay at home, with three oriental regions at a particular risk.
Several Polish airports have been temporarily closed, one of which was used as the main access point for Western officials and supplies traveling to Ukraine on land.
NATO chief Mark Rutte said that a full assessment of the incident had not yet been made, but added that “whether it was intentionally or not, he is absolutely reckless, he is absolutely dangerous.”
Countries that limit Ukraine reported occasional Missiles or Russian drones entering their airspace in the past during the war, but not on such a large scale, and they are not known to have slaughtered them. Two people were killed in Poland in 2022 by a Ukrainian air defense missile that was lost.
Since the creation of NATO in 1949, article 4 has been invoked seven times, more recently in February 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
The EU calls for action
“Russia war increased, did not finish. We have to increase the cost of Moscow, strengthen support for Ukraine and invest in the defense of Europe,” said the first EU diplomat Kaja Kallas.
The first indications suggested that the entry of Russian drones into European airspace was intentional, not accidental, she added her post on X.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia used 415 drones and 40 missiles in attacks on Ukraine overnight, adding that at least eight Iranian manufacturing drones had been intended for Poland.
“An extremely dangerous precedent for Europe,” he said. “A strong answer is necessary – and it can only be a joint response from all partners: Ukraine, Poland, all Europeans, the United States.”
Russia has long declared that it did not intend to put a war with NATO and that the Western European countries suggesting that it is a threat trying to worsen relations.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called for more sanctions against Russia and said that the EU was preparing sanctions against the oil tankers “ Fleet Shadow ” which transported its oil and its third countries which buy it.
Trump, who warmly welcomed Putin in Alaska at a summit in August, said during the weekend, he was ready to move to a second phase of sanction in Russia after months of discussions on a peace agreement.
