Allies bolster Poland air defence after Russian drone raid

France and Germany moved to bolster defence of Polish airspace Thursday arsenic the UN Security Council called an exigency gathering to sermon Warsaw’s accusation that Moscow launched a drone raid connected its territory.

Poland branded the incident, which prompted Polish and NATO forces to sprout down respective drones overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, a deliberate “unprecedented” onslaught connected the country, NATO and the European Union.

Moscow denied targeting the state and said determination was nary grounds the drones were Russian. The drones intruded arsenic Russia unleashed a barrage of strikes crossed Ukraine arsenic portion of an ongoing violative determination pursuing its 2022 invasion.

US President Donald Trump, who has been trying unsuccessfully to broker a halt to the warfare successful Ukraine, told reporters connected Thursday that the alleged incursion may person happened by “mistake”.

But Polish President Karol Nawrocki warned Thursday during a sojourn to an airbase successful occidental Poland that the incidental was “an effort to trial the mechanics of enactment wrong NATO and our readiness to respond”.

But Polish President Karol Nawrocki warned Thursday during a sojourn to an airbase successful occidental Poland that the incidental was “an effort to trial the mechanics of enactment wrong NATO and our readiness to respond”.

Germany said it would “extend and expand” its information successful NATO’s Air Policing programme, to supply much screen to Polish airspace.

Its defence ministry said it would treble the fig of Eurofighter jets deployed to 4 and widen their ngo by 3 months to the extremity of the year.

And French President Emmanuel Macron announced successful a station connected X that France would “deploy 3 Rafale combatant jets to lend to the extortion of Polish airspace and of NATO’s Eastern Flank unneurotic with our Allies.

“The UN Security Council’s South Korean presidency announced Thursday it would clasp an exigency gathering to sermon Warsaw’s assertion of a “violation of Polish airspace by Russia”.

It volition instrumentality spot connected Friday astatine 3:00 p.m. (1900 GMT).

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