Mapped: Where in Poland had been Russian drones shot down? | EUROtoday

Poland has accused Russia of sending a number of drones into its territory, with prime minister Donald Tusk saying the nation is the closest it has been to armed battle for the reason that Second World War.

Polish air defences shot down a minimum of three drones, marking the primary time a Nato member has straight engaged Russia for the reason that starting of its battle in Ukraine.

Mr Tusk has referred to as for an emergency Nato assembly as he introduced that there had been 19 incursions by drones and drone-like objects into Polish airspace in a single day.

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“I have no reason to claim we’re on the brink of war, but a line has been crossed, and it’s incomparably more dangerous than before,” he stated.

“This situation brings us the closest we have been to open conflict since [the Second World War].”

At least three drones, which Poland believed posed a menace to its territory, had been shot down, Mr Tusk stated. It was seemingly {that a} fourth had been downed, however Warsaw was awaiting affirmation.

Local authorities in Wyryki, jap Poland, stated a drone or comparable object had struck a residential constructing, however no person was injured. Debris was additionally discovered within the close by city of Wyhalew.

Police within the village of Czosnowka, in Poland’s jap Lublin area, stated that they had discovered a broken drone, whereas the District Prosecutor’s Office in Zamosc, additionally in Lublin, stated drone elements had been found close to a cemetery within the city of Czesniki.

In the central Lodz area, a drone was present in a discipline close to the village of Mniszkow, Reuters reported. Debris was additionally present in Olesno, 400km from the Ukrainian border.

Meanwhile, inside ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka stated Poland had discovered seven drones and particles from a missile.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that Poland was intentionally focused throughout a Russian drone assault in a single day.

“Increasing evidence indicates that this movement, this direction of strike, was no accident,” he wrote on X. “Ukraine is also ready to help Poland build an effective system of warning and protection against such Russian threats.”

But Nato just isn’t at present treating it as an assault on considered one of its member states, a supply within the alliance instructed Reuters.

The drone incursion has drawn widespread condemnation from throughout Europe, together with EU Council president Antonio Costa, who stated the bloc stands in full solidarity with Poland, including that the “security of one is the security of all”.

The incursion is “simply unacceptable”, French president Emmanuel Macron stated on X, as he condemned it within the “strongest possible terms”.

The EU’s high diplomat Kaja Kallas condemned the “most serious European airspace violation by Russia since the war began” and stated that “indications suggest it was intentional, not accidental”.