US EditionRussia's Defense Ministry says it did not target Poland in overnight strikes
- On September 10, 2025, Poland experienced a large-scale violation of its airspace by numerous Russian drones following overnight strikes on western Ukraine.
- This drone incursion prompted Poland's armed forces to launch a military operation, with NATO support, scrambling aircraft and shooting down direct threats before ending the operation shortly before 8 a.m. local time.
- Polish authorities issued warnings to residents in the eastern provinces of Podlasie and Lublin and the Mazowiecki region including Warsaw, while emergency services searched for remaining drone wreckage after some crashed, damaging property in the Lublin area.
- Prime Minister Donald Tusk described the events as "most likely a large-scale provocation" during a special cabinet meeting and requested NATO invoke Article 4, while European officials called it the most serious airspace violation since the war began.
- The incident represents a significant escalation on NATO's eastern flank, raising concerns about further conflict expansion as Russia has yet to comment on the drone activity over Poland.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense has responded to allegations from Warsaw that Russian drones have repeatedly violated Polish airspace.
Putin has put NATO on the spot with the Russian drone incursion in Poland. What comes next?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s main target in the drone incursion into Poland was not necessarily the civilian home that was hit in the eastern town of Wyryki, or to close airspace around the capital Warsaw’s busiest airport. The Kremlin head appears to have been aiming at NATO confidence and unity, with a partial glancing blow seemingly directed at US President Donald Trump.
The overflight of the country by suicide bombers this Wednesday is a dangerous precedent, which risks becoming more and more recurrent if Europeans and the Atlantic Alliance do not immediately provide a response to the challenge.
The use of Russian drones in Polish airspace was by no means a mistake. Moscow wants to show that NATO is incapable of a decisive reaction. Now the alliance should prove the opposite.
Act delibe or error of navigation, the incursion of several Russian drones on Polish territory comes directly to test the solidite of NATO.
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