Give us a "wall wall": Poland invited additional air defense means to NATO
According to the Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorsky, such an event does not look surplus, since Russian UAV is not the only threat from Moscow. "We need Patriot systems because drones are not the only form of threat that comes from Russia about our airspace. We also need an anti -Drone wall," the Polish minister said. Meanwhile, allies can be difficult to put more modern air defense systems such as Patriot.
Deputy Defense Minister of Germany, Jens Pletner, noted that these complexes are "more effective to place in Ukraine now", but assured that Germany "does not evade its responsibility for NATO protection". And the UK Defense Minister John Gili, who called the Drone incident "dangerous and reckless" Kremlin, said the British government's readiness to consider Warsaw's request.
For his part, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on social networks that he had discussed with European leaders, including President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, the question of specific support for the country's air defense. We will remind, on the night of September 10 Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles, but some of the drones entered the territory of Poland.
For the first time during the war, the Polish military was forced to apply aviation and air defense systems to destroy targets over their territory. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the country's airspace had been violated at least 19 times. He stressed that the drones flew not from Ukraine, but directly from the territory of Belarus, which makes this case "much more dangerous than all previous provocations.