Warsaw, Poland (AP) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tass on Thursday pledged to promote a “great modernization program” for his country’s military. Russian drone has moved to Poland And amplified international tensions around it. Russia’s invasion of Ukraineincluding what the Kremlin’s future territorial ambitions are.
European officials explained the invasion on Wednesday, which occurred during the recent wave Relentless Russian strike in Ukraineas a deliberate provocation, forcing the NATO Alliance to stand up potential threats in the airspace for the first time.
It deepened the long-standing fear that a three-year war between Polish neighbors could cause wider conflicts. US-led efforts Towards Moscow and Kiev towards a peace reconciliation have not been able to gain traction so far.
The Polish Air Navigation Authority announced on Thursday morning that Poland is introducing air traffic restrictions in the eastern part of the country. It said that measures were taken at the request of the Polish military on national security grounds but did not elaborate.
Poland said some of the drones that entered the airspace on Wednesday came from Belarus. War Game It is scheduled to start on Friday. Poland is closing its border with Belarus in the middle of the night Thursday. This is a planned move that is also related to military exercises.
China, which highlighted the global impact of the war, urged Poland on Thursday to keep parts of Belarus’ border open for Chinese-EU cargo trucks crossing it. The railway line is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative to boost trade with other countries.
Task addressed the Polish forces at the air base in Rusk Central City, praised their swift action and the NATO Allied forces from the Netherlands in response to multiple Russian drone invasions.
However, this answer also questioned the wisdom of using advanced fighter jets to shoot down relatively inexpensive drones.
Poland expects to receive its first F-35 fighter jet from the US next year, he said. This is the first delivery of some of the 32 aircraft expected by 2030, Tusk said, as part of a support package that was finalised five years ago.
Polish President Karol Naulocky visited a military air base on Thursday and spoke rebelliously in a statement that Poland said he was “not afraid of Russian drones.”
Nawrocki described the intrusion as “an attempt to test our abilities, our ability to respond.” He had visited the base of Poznan Kruzesiny in western Poland.
The Kremlin said there was nothing to add to the statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday. This argued that Russian troops were not targeting Poland and that it was open for Polish officials to discuss the incident.
He also rejected the story that invasion was a provocation. “The statement we heard from Warsaw: Well, they’re not new. This rhetoric is typical of almost every European capital,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin.
The European Council of Foreign Relations, a think tank, concluded that Putin is testing European resolve as he strives to deal with the threat from Moscow, but the US is demanding more economic burden.
“The contradiction between words and actions appears to have eroded the credibility of Europe in Russia’s eyes,” he said in an analysis released Friday.
US President Donald Trump made an offer on Wednesday Ambiguous initial response Russian drone invasion. “What about Russia violating Polish airspace with drones? We’re here!” Trump posted on social media.
Last week, President Trump told Now Rocky, Polish president of the White House, last week the US would keep it up. A robust military presence.
Several European leaders said they believe the invasion amounts to a deliberate spread of Russian attacks on Ukraine.
“Russia’s war is escalating and not over,” Kaja Karas, head of foreign policy for the European Union, told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday. “What[Russian President Vladimir]Putin wants to do is test us. What happened in Poland is a game changer,” she said.
There is Polish airspace I violated many times Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, however, it has not been on this scale in Poland or elsewhere in the NATO region.
The Russian drone attacks on civilian regions are a daily occurrence in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army successfully developed a drone to combat attacks known as interceptors. The war spurred the development of fast trucks High-tech drone technology.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Dennis Schmichal and his British counterpart John Healy said they signed an agreement with the UK via telegram on Thursday to produce Ukrainian interceptor drones as other countries strive to modernize their troops.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Thursday that its forces thwarted 62 of 66 Russian strikes and decoid drones overnight.
In Smie city in northeastern Ukraine, Russian drones and debris from intercepted people damaged educational facilities, apartment blocks and the groundbreaking Holy Resurrection Cathedral, local chief Olekholov wrote in a telegram.
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Ilya Novikov of Kiev, Ukraine, Ken Moritug of Beijing, and Katie Marie Davis of Manchester, England, contributed to the report.
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