Netherlands sending 300 troops, Patriot missile systems to Poland

Dutch defence curate announces details of enactment for Poland arsenic Polish authorities impeach Russia of ‘provocation’ aft drone crash.

Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans has said his state is sending 300 troops and Patriot aerial defence rocket systems to Poland to “defend NATO territory, support proviso to Ukraine, and deter Russian aggression”.

The Netherlands’ announcement connected Wednesday came arsenic Polish officials said that an entity that fell successful a cornfield successful Poland’s eastbound connected Tuesday nighttime whitethorn person been a Russian mentation of the Shahed drone.

The detonation from the drone broke windows successful respective houses successful the colony of Osiny, adjacent Poland’s borderline with Ukraine, but nary injuries were reported, according to an authoritative cited by Poland’s authorities quality bureau PAP.

Brekelmans told Dutch nationalist broadcaster NOS connected Wednesday that the subject enactment to Poland came alongside different countries providing akin assistance to the NATO-member country, which borders Ukraine.

Brekelmans emphasised that the Patriot systems would beryllium operating successful Poland, and the accompanying 300 troops did not mean the Netherlands was putting troops connected the crushed successful Ukraine.

Germany deployed 5 Eurofighter combat craft to Poland earlier this month, according to a German aerial unit spokesperson cited by Germany’s DPA quality agency. The Kyiv Independent quality outlet reported the combatant jets were deployed up of associated Russian-Belarusian subject drills.

Germany besides sent 5 Eurofighter jets and an estimated 270 soldiers to Romania, DPA reported connected Wednesday.

Two of the Eurofighter jets successful Romania were mobilised for the archetypal clip connected Tuesday night, successful effect to Russian aerial strikes adjacent Ukraine’s borderline with Romania, DPA said.

The jets, which took disconnected from a Romanian subject airbase, returned without incident, DPA added.

A Polish constabulary serviceman is seen connected Wednesday astatine the tract wherever a suspected Russian drone fell and exploded successful a cornfield successful the colony of Osiny, eastbound Poland, connected Tuesday nighttime [Kacper Pempel/Reuters]

Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz accused Russia of “provocation”, noting the drone incidental wrong Poland’s borders connected Tuesday came “at a peculiar moment, erstwhile determination are ongoing discussions astir peace” successful Ukraine, Polskie Radio reported.

Several European leaders accompanied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House connected Monday, wherever 1 of the main topics of treatment was European countries providing post-war security guarantees to Ukraine arsenic portion of discussions astir ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned connected Wednesday that attempting to instrumentality information issues relating to Ukraine without Moscow’s engagement was a “road to nowhere”.

“We cannot hold with the information that present it is projected to resoluteness questions of security, corporate security, without the Russian Federation. This volition not work,” Lavrov said.

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