{"id":443741,"date":"2025-09-22T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/443741\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:21:10","slug":"poland-will-shoot-down-encroaching-russian-aircraft-warns-pm-tusk-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/443741\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland will shoot down encroaching Russian aircraft, warns PM Tusk \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish leader added he wants to have &#8220;100 percent certainty&#8221; that Poland&#8217;s NATO allies will view any incursion in the same way, so that &#8220;if the conflict enters a very acute phase, we will not be alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The incidents heightened security concerns along NATO\u2019s eastern flank, triggering calls for increased vigilance against Russian provocations.<\/p>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-scrambles-fighters-shoots-down-russian-drones-after-airspace-violations-ukraine-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incursion of 21 Russian drones into Poland<\/a> earlier this month, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/nato-to-bolster-eastern-flank-after-russian-drone-incursion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced the launch of the Eastern Sentry mission<\/a>\u00a0to bolster air defenses.<\/p>\n<p>Poland is also considering more effective ways of neutralizing potential Russian incursions instead of scrambling fighter jets and using expensive missiles to target cheap drones.<\/p>\n<p>Tusk said that in more ambiguous situations \u2014 such as recent overflights of Russian fighter jets above Poland&#8217;s Petrobaltic drilling platform in the Baltic Sea outside Poland\u2019s territorial waters \u2014 any decision to react will need to be made very carefully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to think twice before deciding on actions that could trigger a very acute phase of the conflict,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Polish leader added he wants to have &#8220;100 percent certainty&#8221; that Poland&#8217;s NATO allies will view any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2594,5898,1112,46647,2992,98281,2821,12,770,1438,332,657,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-443741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-estonia","11":"tag-eu-russia-relations","12":"tag-mark-rutte","13":"tag-military-aviation","14":"tag-nato","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-poland","17":"tag-romania","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-war-in-ukraine","21":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115249105119166371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}