Poland gathered its NATO allies for urgent talks Wednesday after Russian drones flew into Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, warning that the situation was inching closer to "open conflict".
Poland's airspace was violated 19 times, Tusk said, and at least three drones were shot down after Warsaw and its allies scrambled jets. Authorities said nobody was harmed.
Footage posted by local media showed firefighters and the army in Wyryki-Wola, a village in eastern Poland, inspecting a house with its roof ripped open and debris littered nearby.
Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said the intrusion was not accidental, calling it "an unprecedented case of an attack not only on Poland's territory but also on the territory of NATO and the Europe