Poland and NATO were deployed this Saturday, September 13, helicopter aircraft and combat due to Russian drones attacks in Ukraine not far from the Polish border, the country’s authorities said.
“Due to the threat of attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles (drones, editor’s note) in the Ukraine regions that border the Republic of Poland (…), Polish and Allied airplanes operate in our airspace, and air defense systems and radar recognition have reached their highest alert level,” said the operational command of the Polish armed forces in X.
The Deputy Minister of Defense, Cezary Tomczyk, said the helicopters were also committed.
The alert raised at night
The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk also mentioned in X “the threat of the Russian drones operating on Ukraine, near the Polish border” during Saturday.
The airspace on the Lublin airport (southeast) was closed and several flights had to be diverted or delayed.
Donald Tusk announced at night that the alert had been raised, approximately when Romania denounced the intrusion of a Russian drone in her sky.
“We remain watching,” warned the head of government in Warsaw.
On alert from the intrusion of Russian drones
Poland and the countries of the Atlantic Alliance with a military presence on their ground have been on alert from the intrusion of September 9 to 10 to 10 of about twenty Russian drones.
Several European countries, including France, Germany and Sweden, have announced the strengthening of their contribution to Poland’s air defense along its eastern border with Ukraine and Belarus.
Source: BFM TV
