Warsaw has officially requested consultations with other NATO participants.
After attacking Russian drones, Warsaw officially requested consultations with other NATO member countries. Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said that last night 19 raids were recorded in Poland’s airspace, most of which were made from Belarus territory.
NATO does not see an attack
General NATO secretary Mark Rutte said the violation of Poland’s airspace of Russian drones was completely reckless. “Regardless of whether it is intentional or not, it is completely reckless and completely dangerous. But a complete assessment of the incident is ongoing,” Rutte said.
“My message to Putin is quite clear: Stop the war in Ukraine. Stop breaking the airspace of allies. And knowing that we are ready, guarding and protecting every inch of NATO territory,” the Secretary of NATO secretary warned.
At the same time, the Reuters source said NATO did not consider the invasion of Russian drones in Poland’s airspace as an attack.
EU diplomacy head Kai Callas said he was in contact with the NATO leadership and the Poland Foreign Ministry. Unlike Rutta, he believes that “there is a reason to believe that this is a intentional, and not a random violation of” European Airspace. He called for boosting Ukraine’s support and investment in European defense.
Unity Without action
The leaders of the European countries included in the NATO have expressed support for the Warsaw.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced the complete unity among the people of Poland and his government. “I will soon meet with the Secretary of the General NATO Mark Rutte. We cannot compromise on the safety of allies,” he said.
It is hard to believe the Prime Minister of Czech Republic Peter Fiala that what happened was accidental. He accused Russia of conducting “systematic sensing to understand how far it was.
Finland President Alexander Stubb says Moscow is “striving for increased” and “bear responsibility” for violation of Poland’s airspace.
Although Orban spoke
It is important that even Russian allies in Europe condemned this violation.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said Budapest “is fully in solidarity with Poland in connection with a recent incident with a drone.” “The violation of Poland’s territorial integrity is unacceptable -accepted,” Obran wrote on the KH social network.
“The prime minister of Slovakia Robert Fitzo has called a serious incident that can have distant consequences”. True, he still added that it was necessary to establish whether intentionally or random and who controlled the drones. He also offered help in finding the necessary answers.
There is no tough reaction
“Ukraine offered Poland the necessary counteracting assistance. No one could guarantee that there would be no way -old, if there were only twelve drones. Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
The president emphasized that the Russian Federation is experiencing the limitations of the world’s possibility and reaction.
The Russians record how NATO’s armed forces work, what they can do and what they can’t do. In the Belarus territory, joint training began with the Russians, and it could be part, so to speak, a training plan, the President added.
Nato Completely Not ready
The Reuters’ resource said at night that NATO did not consider the invasion of Russian drones in Poland’s airspace as an attack; On the other hand, the Poland military considers “aggression”.
Falling Russian drones with Poland Nato’s fighters is the first case of direct contact of the Alliance and Russia since the beginning of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
However, according to officials, military and analyst experts, this incident also showed how many Europeans were not prepared for massive wind attacks, which Russia destroys almost every night in Ukraine. It also shows the size of the investments needed to strengthen the eastern NATO flank.
“Moscow has noticed that we have never learned from what Ukraine has been dealing with for many years. We are completely unprepared for it … And now they are at our doors,” said Ben Hodges, a former commander of the US land forces in Europe.
Hodges emphasized that Europe requires a multi -layer, integrated air defense system, which can evaluate the size of the attack and direct the necessary resources. He added that important fighters, such as the Dutch F-35, were raised in the sky to knock down cheap drones.
“This, obviously, is not an accident, given by the number of drones. This is a practice. To check how good our early warning systems are, what time is our reaction,” the general said.
Source: korrespondent
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