Poland said Wednesday that, along with NATO allies, it had scrambled warplanes to shoot down multiple Russian drones that entered its airspace during Moscow's latest attack on Ukraine.
"Last night the Polish airspace was violated by a huge number of Russian drones," Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a social media post . "Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down. I am in constant communication with the Secretary General of NATO and our allies."
Poland's military said it scrambled aircraft to shoot down "hostile objects" in Polish airspace, a first for a NATO country during the war. The military, in a post on X called it "an unprecedented violation of Polish airspace by drone-type objects" and an "act of aggression that posed a real threat to the safety of our citize