By Anna Dabrowska and Yuliia Dysa

KYIV (Reuters) -Poland hopes Washington will take action to show solidarity with Warsaw after Russia’s drone incursion this week, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Reuters on Friday, despite President Donald Trump having played the incident down.

Poland shot down Russian drones that had crossed into its airspace on Wednesday, the first time a NATO member has opened fire during Russia’s war in Ukraine.

European countries have condemned the incident. But Washington mostly has held back from strong words, and Trump said “it could have been a mistake”, prompting Poland, one of Washington’s closest allies in the EU, to contradict the U.S. president and say Russia’s actions were clearly intentional.

In an interview with Reuters in Kyiv, where he was vi

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