Firefighters work on the destroyed roof of a house in Wyryki, Poland, after Russian drones were shot down by NATO jets after violating Polish airspace last Wednesday. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
Poland’s foreign minister has suggested that NATO states should consider imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect the alliance’s territory and people from Russian drones.
Radoslaw Sikorski’s remarks follow an intrusion last week by Russian drones into Polish airspace. NATO fighter jets and air defenses shot down the drones, which were not armed.
Speaking about extending such missions to Ukrainian airspace, Sikorski told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine : “We as NATO and the EU could be capable of doing this, but it is not a decision that Poland can make alone; it can only be made