NATO state threatens to shoot down Russian aircraft

Poland previously accused Russia of violating its airspace but failed to provide evidence, according to Moscow

Poland will shoot down any Russian aircraft or missile that crosses into its airspace, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said at an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Monday.

Earlier this month, Warsaw accused Moscow of deliberately sending at least 19 drones into Polish airspace, which Russia dismissed as “hysteria” promoted by the “European party of war.”

The latest warning came during a meeting convened by another NATO member, Estonia, which also accused Russia of violating its airspace.

“You have been warned,” Sikorski said. “If another missile or aircraft enters our airspace without permission – either deliberately or by mistake – and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don’t come here to whine about it.”

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Moscow responded by saying, “neither Warsaw nor Brussels need the truth.” Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Dmitry Polyansky called the gathering the second part of the “blame Russia for everything” spectacle.

Polyansky said the only confirmed damage from the alleged Russian drone incursion was actually caused by a Polish missile fired from a NATO F-16, which struck a residential building.

Moscow offered to hold bilateral consultations over the incident but received “no adequate response,” and Warsaw has yet to provide evidence that the drones were of Russian origin. Poland simply needs “a reason for a new round of a Russophobic campaign,” the diplomat added.

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Regarding Estonia’s claims that three Russian military aircraft violated its airspace last week, “there is no proof except the Russophobic hysteria coming from Tallinn,” Polyansky said.

Russia treats any accusations against its military “very seriously,” but needs to see clear evidence rather than EU “hysteria” aimed at pushing US President Donald Trump into “an anti-Russian course and undermining the agreements and understandings reached by the Russian and American presidents in Alaska a month ago,” Polyansky added.