Russia’s incursion into Poland’s airspace was a deliberate test of NATO’s defense systems and a warning to the West to end its aid for Ukraine, an expert on the conflict said.

While Moscow claims that it did not intentionally deploy drones into Poland on Wednesday, the sheer scope of the incident indicates that it was a coordinated Russian operation, said Christina Harward, an analyst for the Institute for the Study of War think tank.

“Given the number of drones that violated Polish airspace overnight, this was likely a deliberate Russian incursion,” she told The Post. 4

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“We have seen limited drone and missile incursions into Poland and other states that neighbor Ukraine throughout the war, but nothing of this scale,” she added.

At least 19 projectiles were detected flying

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