Warsaw, September 12 – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday firmly dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that recent drone incursions into Poland’s airspace could have been accidental, insisting the attacks were deliberate acts by Russia.
“We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake. But it wasn’t. And we know it,” Tusk said in a statement on X.
The incident, which took place on Wednesday, saw Polish forces shoot down drones that had entered its territory, with support from NATO military aircraft. It marked the first known instance of a NATO member firing shots in response to Russian aggression since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk echoed the Prime Minister’s stance, directly addressing Trump’s earlier remarks. “This is a message that should reach President Trump today: there’s no question of a mistake – this was a deliberate Russian attack,” Tomczyk told broadcaster Polsat News.
Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who was in Kyiv on Friday, also weighed in. “On the night that 19 Russian drones crossed into Poland, more than 400 drones and 40 missiles struck Ukraine. These were not mistakes,” he said in a video message posted on X.
In response to the incursions, Poland requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council, scheduled to convene in New York at 1500 local time on Friday, according to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The developments underscore heightened tensions between NATO and Moscow, as Warsaw pushes for stronger international condemnation of what it calls deliberate Russian aggression.
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