Warsaw — Poland’s most senior officials on Friday dismissed President Trump’s suggestion that a major Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace could have been a mistake by Vladimir Putin’s military.
“We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake.
Poland’s relatively new, conservative President Karol Nawrocki, in a social media post on Thursday, called the Russian drone incursion “nothing more than an attempt to test our capabilities and response.
Poland’s Deputy Minister of Defense Cezary Tomczyk also rejected Mr. Trump’s suggestion on Thursday that the drone incursion could have been inadvertent.
Poland has requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Russian drone incursion, which is set to take place Friday afternoon.
Warsaw — President Trump’s assertion that Vladimir Putin’s military may have erred in allowing a significant Russian drone to enter Polish airspace was rejected by Poland’s top officials on Friday.
Additionally, we hope that the drone strike on Poland was an oversight. But it wasn’t. “And we are aware of it,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated in a social media post.
Parts of 17 Russian-made drones were recovered by Polish authorities after they fell in the country’s east on Wednesday without causing any serious damage or casualties.
The first response to aerial Russian military incursions into NATO airspace since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago was the frantic deployment of Polish and allied NATO fighter jets from Holland to intercept the helicopters.
On Thursday, Karol Nawrocki, the conservative and relatively new president of Poland, described the Russian drone invasion as “nothing more than an attempt to test our capabilities and response” in a social media post. It was an effort to assess our response capabilities and NATO’s operational procedures. “.
The European Union and other European capitals also called the raid a Russian test of NATO’s resolve against Russia’s war in Ukraine, but Mr. Trump implied otherwise.
When asked about the incident late Thursday, he said, “It could have been a mistake.”. In response to the incident, Mr. Trump posted a brief statement on his Truth Social platform the day before, asking, “What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we go!”.
There was no explanation from the White House regarding Mr. Trump’s comments.
At one point, U. A. In a social media post, Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker stated that the U.S. A. “Stand by our NATO Allies in the face of these violations of airspace and will defend every square inch of NATO. “.”.
Additionally, on Thursday, Cezary Tomczyk, Poland’s deputy minister of defense, denied that the drone invasion might have been an accident.
He told the Polsat News television network, “I believe this is a message that should reach President Trump today: there’s no question of a mistake – this was a deliberate Russian attack.”.
“On the night that 19 Russian drones crossed into Poland, 400 (drones) plus 40 missiles crossed into Ukraine,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski added in a social media video message prior to a trip to the Ukrainian capital. “There were no errors here. “.”.
The Russian drone invasion is scheduled for Friday afternoon, and Poland has asked the UN Security Council to meet to discuss it.
