Russia recently carried out attacks on several Ukrainian cities and at the same time violated Polish airspace.
For 39 seconds, a cruising robot was in Poland, and now they are considering shooting down robots on their way to the country’s border.
– It is analyzed within NATO that robots would be shot down when they are very close to NATO’s border, says Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna to RMF24.
On Sunday, the air raid warning sounded in the capital Kiev and in the Lviv region in western Ukraine. The Lviv region borders Poland and at 04:23 a Russian robot entered Polish airspace.
The Polish Central Command wrote that it was fired by Russia’s long-range aircraft and that the target of the attacks was western Ukraine.
– If there had been the slightest indication that the missile was on its way to a target in Polish territory, it would of course have been shot down, says the Polish Minister of Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz.
Considering shooting down robots outside of Poland
To it Polish radio channel RMF24 says the deputy Polish foreign minister, Andrzej Szejna, that they may act differently in the future. They are now considering shooting down robots that have not violated the country’s territory – but are about to do so.
– Then NATO robots would meet Russian robots outside the territory of the military alliance, says Szejna.
He also mentions that a possible shooting down outside Poland would take place in agreement with Ukraine and with regard to the consequences it would have internationally.
The foreign minister: Putin got Sweden to join NATO
Russia cannot be allowed to dictate the rules every time, says Foreign Minister Sjena, and believes that they must get used to NATO and the EU setting a certain tone connected to the war in Ukraine.
– We take Putin’s threats very seriously. He has shown that he is capable of anything. In addition to causing hundreds of thousands of wounded and injured on both sides, he also got Sweden and Finland to join NATO, says Foreign Minister Sjena.
Violated Polish airspace in the past
Russia’s violation of Polish airspace is not the first. At the end of last year, a large-scale attack was carried out with over 150 drones. From the Ukrainian side, it was called the biggest attack since the full-scale invasion, reported the Kyiv Independent
A Russian cruise robot also passed the Polish border and the president called a crisis meeting with the country’s security council. Then the Russian chargé d’affaires was called up to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The same thing happened after the latest violation, but Russia’s chargé d’affaires chose not to appear. Andrzej Szejna chose to call the act a “diplomatic desertion”.