Poland downs drones during airspace intrusion as Russia attacks Ukraine

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says subject defences deployed aft ‘multiple violations of Polish airspace’.

Poland has changeable down drones implicit its territory aft repeated violations of its airspace during a Russian aerial onslaught connected neighbouring Ukraine, the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said.

“During today’s onslaught by the Russian Federation targeting targets successful Ukraine, our airspace was repeatedly violated by drones,” the Polish bid said successful a connection aboriginal connected Wednesday.

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“At the petition of the Operational Commander of the Armed Forces, weapons person been used, and operations are nether mode to find the downed targets,” the subject said.

The service said that Polish and NATO subject craft had been mobilised to guarantee airspace safety.

“Polish and allied craft are operating successful our airspace, portion ground-based aerial defence and radar reconnaissance systems person been brought to the highest authorities of readiness,” the operational bid said.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed that an “operation is nether mode related to aggregate violations of Polish airspace”.

Trwa operacja związana z wielokrotnym naruszeniem polskiej przestrzeni powietrznej. Przeciwko obiektom wojsko użyło uzbrojenia. Jestem w stałym kontakcie z Prezydentem one Ministrem Obrony. Odebrałem bezpośredni meldunek od dowódcy operacyjnego.

— Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) September 10, 2025

Translation: An cognition is nether mode related to aggregate violations of Polish airspace. The subject utilized armaments against the objects. I americium successful changeless interaction with the President and the Minister of Defence. I received a nonstop study from the operational commander.

Earlier, it was reported that 4 airports successful Poland, including its main Chopin airdrome successful Warsaw, were closed owed to subject activity.

According to notices posted to the US Federal Aviation Administration’s website, the 3 different airports closed were Rzeszow–Jasionka airport, the Warsaw Modlin airport, and the Lublin airport. Poland’s subject did not notation the airdrome closures.

The subject mobilisation successful Poland came aft Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russian drones had entered Polish airspace, posing a menace to the metropolis of Zamosc, but the aerial unit aboriginal removed the connection from its Telegram messaging app.

Most of Ukraine, including the occidental regions of Volyn and Lviv, which borderline Poland, were nether aerial raid alerts for respective hours overnight, according to Ukraine’s Air Force data.

Poland said earlier that it planned to adjacent its borderline with Belarus astatine midnight section clip connected Thursday (22:00 GMT, Wednesday) owed to Russian-led subject exercises scheduled to instrumentality spot successful Belarus.

Russia and Belarus’s large-scale subject exercises, known arsenic the “Zapad” drills, person raised information concerns successful neighbouring NATO subordinate states: Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. The “Zapad-2025” (West-2025) drills volition beryllium held successful occidental Russia and Belarus from Friday.

Asked astir the duration of the borderline closure, Polish Minister of Interior Marcin Kierwinski said it would lone beryllium reopened erstwhile the authorities was definite “there was nary much menace to Polish citizens”.

The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had summoned the Polish complaint d’affaires to kick astir the borderline closure, which it said “caused important difficulties”.

It described Poland’s determination arsenic “an maltreatment of its geographical position”.

“The impermanent suspension of transition indicates alternatively an volition to conceal one’s ain actions than the beingness of immoderate menace from Belarus,” the Foreign Ministry said.

Lithuania’s borderline defender said connected Tuesday that the extortion of its borderline with Belarus and Russia would beryllium strengthened owed to the exercises.

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