US Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s assertion that his country was prepared to shoot down foreign aircraft that enter its territory after a series of Russian incursions into NATO airspace.
“I don’t think anyone said about shooting down Russian jets unless they’re attacking,” Rubio said Tuesday in comments to CBS News, striking a discordant note just one day after Tusk delivered a stark warning to the Kremlin. “I think what you have seen is NATO responding to those intrusions the way we respond to them all the time, and that is when they enter your airspace, or your defense zone, you go up and you intercept them.”