Polish airspace was ‘violated by enormous variety of Russian drones’, says PM Tusk
Final night time the Polish airspace was violated by an enormous variety of Russian drones, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk mentioned on X on Wednesday including that drones that posed a direct menace had been shot down.
Tusk wrote on X:
Final night time the Polish airspace was violated by an enormous variety of Russian drones. These drones that posed a direct menace had been shot down.
I’m in fixed communication with the secretary normal of Nato and our allies.
Polish state fireplace service Cmdr Wojciech Kruczek and Gen Wieslaw Kukula, chief of the final workers of the Polish armed forces, collect on the Chancellery of the prime minister for a unprecedented authorities assembly, after violations of Polish airspace throughout a Russian assault on Ukraine. {Photograph}: Kacper Pempel/ReutersShare
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Russian drones’ entry into European airspace was possible intentional, Kallas says
Early indications counsel the entry of Russian drones into European airspace was intentional, not unintentional, the EU’s prime diplomat Kaja Kallas mentioned on Wednesday.
Kallas wrote in a publish on X:
Russia’s conflict is escalating, not ending.
We should increase the price on Moscow, strengthen help for Ukraine, and put money into Europe’s defence. The EU performs a serious position and we are going to help initiatives just like the jap border defend defence line.
She additionally described the Russian assault, the place drones entered Polish airspace, as “probably the most critical European airspace violation by Russia because the conflict started”.
Kallas added that she is in contact with Nato secretary normal Mark Rutte and deputy prime minister of Poland Radosław Sikorski. “The EU stands in full solidarity with Poland,” mentioned Kallas.
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Poland is able to react to assaults and ‘provocations’, says PM Tusk
Poland is able to react to any assaults or provocations, the Polish prime minister mentioned after the nation shot down Russian drones that entered its airspace throughout a widespread Russian assault in western Ukraine.
Based on Reuters, Donald Tusk mentioned:
We’re coping with a large-scale provocation … We’re able to repel such provocations. The scenario is critical, and nobody doubts that we should put together for varied eventualities.
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Nato is consulting carefully with Poland after it shot down drones that entered its airspace throughout a Russian assault in western Ukraine, a Nato spokesperson wrote in a publish on social media platform X.
Nato secretary normal Mark Rutte “is in contact with Polish management,” the spokesperson mentioned.
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EU should develop ‘drone wall’ alongside jap flank, defence commissioner says
The European Union should develop a “drone wall” alongside the jap flank of its shared borders, EU defence commissioner Andrius Kubilius mentioned on Wednesday, after Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace throughout a Russian assault in western Ukraine.
“As soon as once more Russia checks frontier states, EU & Nato,” Kubilius wrote in a publish on social media platform X. He added:
We will work along with member states, frontier international locations and Ukraine. Russia can be stopped.
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Drone parts have been discovered close to a cemetery within the city of Czesniki, south-eastern Poland, Polish native prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in a press release on Wednesday, including that based on the findings up to now, nobody was injured.
Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace throughout a widespread Russian assault in western Ukraine on Wednesday, with the Nato member calling the incursion “an act of aggression”.
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Polish airspace was ‘violated by enormous variety of Russian drones’, says PM Tusk
Final night time the Polish airspace was violated by an enormous variety of Russian drones, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk mentioned on X on Wednesday including that drones that posed a direct menace had been shot down.
Tusk wrote on X:
Final night time the Polish airspace was violated by an enormous variety of Russian drones. These drones that posed a direct menace had been shot down.
I’m in fixed communication with the secretary normal of Nato and our allies.
Polish state fireplace service Cmdr Wojciech Kruczek and Gen Wieslaw Kukula, chief of the final workers of the Polish armed forces, collect on the Chancellery of the prime minister for a unprecedented authorities assembly, after violations of Polish airspace throughout a Russian assault on Ukraine. {Photograph}: Kacper Pempel/ReutersShare
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Zelenskyy says Russian assault units ‘a particularly harmful precedent for Europe’
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described Russia’s newest assault on the nation, which noticed drones enter Polish airspace, as “one other step of escalation” and “a particularly harmful precedent for Europe”.
Zelenskyy mentioned on Wednesday that a minimum of eight drones had focused Poland throughout Russian assaults in a single day that deployed a complete of about 415 drones and over 40 missiles.
He referred to as for a stronger response from allies and mentioned “delaying restrictions on Russia and its accomplices solely means rising the brutality of the strikes”.
Right here is his assertion that was posted on his X account:
Rescuers at the moment are working in Volochysk, Khmelnytskyi area, the place the Russians struck an odd stitching workshop with a missile. As of now, three persons are reported injured. That is simply one of many websites of at this time’s huge Russian assault: about 415 drones of assorted sorts and greater than 40 cruise and ballistic missiles. Fifteen of our areas had been underneath assault. Sadly, one particular person was killed on account of shelling within the Zhytomyr area. My condolences to the household and family members.
Moscow at all times pushes the boundaries of what’s attainable, and if it doesn’t encounter a powerful response, it stays on the new degree of escalation. In the present day there was one other step of escalation – Russian-Iranian ‘shaheds’ operated within the airspace of Poland, in Nato airspace. It was not only one ‘shahed’ that might be referred to as an accident, however a minimum of eight strike drones aimed towards Poland.
A particularly harmful precedent for Europe. Whether or not there can be additional steps relies upon solely on the coordination and energy of the response. The Russians should really feel the implications. Russia should really feel that the conflict can’t be expanded and must be ended.
The pause in sanctions has gone on far too lengthy. Delaying restrictions on Russia and its accomplices solely means rising the brutality of the strikes. Enough weapons are wanted to discourage Russia. A robust response is required – and it could possibly solely be a joint response by all companions: Ukraine, Poland, all Europeans, the US. I thank everybody who helps.
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Reuters has a breaking information line, citing Polstat Information, {that a} performed struck a residential constructing in Wyryki, jap Poland. No person was injured, it provides.
We’ll report extra particulars as they arrive in.
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Airports reopen in Warsaw, Modlin and Rzeszow
As we reported earlier, Warsaw’s major airport has reopened. Now a spokesman for the Polish air navigation providers company has informed TV station TVN24 that airports in Modlin and Rzeszow have additionally reopened.
The airport in Lublin stays quickly closed.
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President Karol Nawrocki’s assembly with the Nationwide Safety Bureau has ended, based on a publish by the company on X.
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Drone interception operation has ended, navy says, however search continues for particles
The Polish navy says the “operations of Polish and allied aviation associated to violations of Polish airspace have concluded” however that the seek for fallen drones and their influence website is ongoing.
In a publish on X, it urged individuals to not contact or method and unknown object or particles, warning that they could include hazardous supplies.
It additionally thanks Nato Aircommand and the Royal Netherlands Air Drive for his or her assist in guaranteeing “security in Polish skies”. It added:
Floor-based air protection and radar reconnaissance techniques have returned to plain operational actions.
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A former US deputy assistant secretary of defence has informed the BBC that it’s laborious to think about the incursion of Russian drones into Poland is a mistake.
“One drone is a mistake, a number of drones shouldn’t be a mistake,” Jim Townsend has informed the BBC.
That is greater than possible a check – this can be a check that Nato has to reply …Now’s the political facet of Nato that’s on the new seat to ensure the response from the alliance is suitable.”
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Warsaw’s Chopin airport reopens
Warsaw’s Chopin airport says it has reopened. In a Fb publish it warned nevertheless that as a result of restrictions and closures of airspace “difficulties and delays that may final all through the day must be anticipated”.
It informed passengers to test its web site for flight info and immediately with carriers.
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