BRUSSELS, Belgium — NATO allies swiftly held talks Wednesday on the incursion by multiple Russian drones into Polish — and alliance — airspace and the shooting down of some of the weapons by Polish and Dutch fighter jets.

The consultations at NATO headquarters were part of a regular meeting of ambassadors from the alliance's 32 member states known as the North Atlantic Council, but Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told Parliament that they came under Article 4 of the treaty that founded NATO in 1949 in the aftermath of World War II.

The incident in Poland came three days after Russia’s largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the war began.

Article 4 can put urgent matters on the agenda

Article 4, the shortest of the NATO treaty’s 14 articles, states that: “The Parties will cons

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