A high voltage and unprecedented night in Poland from the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. A swarm of Russian drones has violated the aerial space of Warsaw, in what many of the western leaders believe an “deliberate” attack by Russia – and not a mistake as sporadically occurred in the past -, which began on Tuesday evening and ended at dawn of the next day. “We have never been so close to a conflict from the Second World War”, thundered the Poles Premier Donald Tusk, announcing that he asked for the activation of art. 4 of NATO, a consultation mechanism between the member countries in the event of a threat to one of the parties.
The prime minister then heard the secretary general Mark Rutte and several allies in the afternoon, including the Frenchman Emmanuel Macron, the British Keir Starmer and the Italian premier Giorgia Meloni. The condemnation of the partners for “the unacceptable violation” was unanimous, and the reaction of the alliance ready: in support of the Polish defense and its F-16s, NATO also raised the Dutch F-35s, an Italian Awacs surveillance plane and put the German patriot systems in a state of “maximum alert” that revealed the Russian drones without having to intervene to abet.
“We will defend every centimeter of the NATO territory,” Rutte warned, sending a “clear message” to Vladimir Putin: “Stop the war in Ukraine, stops the war escalation that is hitting innocent civilians, and know that we are ready”.
For its part, the Kremlin rejected the accusations to the sender: “They attribute provocations every day to us”. The Russian Ministry of Defense denied having targeted objectives in Polish territory and in turn accused Warsaw of wanting to “increase the escalation”. And he said that the drones in question do not exceed 700 km of flight, suggesting that they started from nearby Ukrainian. “There were 19 violations” of the airspace, reported in the immediate Tusk and that at least 3 drones had been demolished.
With the passing of the hours and the aid of 12 thousand agents, the Ministry of the Interior of Warsaw has announced that it had found the scrap of 15 drones especially in the Voivodato di Lublin, in the East of Poland. A house and a car were damaged, but there are no victims or injuries. The Warsaw Airport remained inactive for most of the night, and in the next few hours the boundaries will be closed with Belarus in conjunction with the start of the great military operations joined with Russia, called Zapad-2025. However, the number of drones and violations of the airspace makes Varsavia believed that the attack was wanted.
“We have no doubt that it is not accidental,” the Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told the press by denouncing an “unprecedented attack not only on the territory of Poland but on that of NATO and the European Union”. Also for Volodymyr Zelensky, “it was not accidental” that “at least 8 Russian-Iranian shads were headed towards Poland”, in one night that once again saw hundreds of drones hit on his country: the Ukrainian president warned against “a previous dangerous for Europe” and renewed the proposal to the allies to create “a common air defense system to destroy”. intentional »also speaks the high EU representative Kaja Kallas, while Germany definitely excludes” trajectory or accident errors “: the drones” were clearly direct “to the Polish airspace.
Hard the comment of Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “Russia has endangered human lives in a NATO Member State and EU,” he said speaking of “reckless action”. And he warned: “NATO is and remains ready for defense,” he warned. Instead, the comment of the American president Donald Trump, who appears increasingly surprised – if not disappointed – from the moves of Putin in spite of the face to face of August in Alaska: «Why Russia violates the Polish aerial space with drones? Here we are! “: It is the laconic and cryptic Tycoon post on Truth. Through their ambassador at the Atlantic alliance, Matthew Witaker, the United States have still ensured that they were” alongside the allies born in the face of these violations of the airspace “and the commitment to” defend every centimeter of the territory “of the alliance.