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WARSAW, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace during a widespread Russian attack in western Ukraine on Wednesday, with the NATO member calling the incursion "an act of aggression"
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he was in "constant contact" with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Tusk has called for an emergency meeting of the council of ministers at 8 a.m. (0600 GMT), a government spokesman said.

Poland's military command said drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace during the Russian attack across the border, in western Ukraine, but that operations against these violations had now concluded.
Radars tracked more than 10 objects and those that could pose a threat were "neutralised," the command said.
"Some of the drones that entered our airspace were shot down. Searches and efforts to locate the potential crash sites of these objects are ongoing," it said in a statement.

It urged people to stay at home, naming the regions of Podlaskie, Mazowieckie, and Lublin as most at risk, adding: "This is an act of aggression that posed a real threat to the safety of our citizens."
Russia's defence ministry did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been briefed, CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins said on Tuesday. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NATO is yet to comment on the incident.
Since the war started in 2022, there have been several incidents of Russian drones entering the airspace of states bordering Ukraine, including Poland and Romania, but they have so far avoided shooting them down.
Officials have cited the physical danger that such actions could cause and a desire to avoid an escalation in tensions between Russia and NATO.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the violations of Poland's airspace showed Russian President Vladimir Putin was expanding his war and testing the West.

"The longer he faces no strength in response, the more aggressive he gets," Sybiha said on X. " A weak response now will provoke Russia even more - and then Russian missiles and drones will fly even further into Europe."

Chopin airport in Warsaw, the country's largest, closed its airspace for several hours before reopening. It said there would be disruptions and delays through the day.
Most of Ukraine, including western regions of Volyn and Lviv which border Poland, had been under air raid alerts for nearly all night, according to Ukraine's air force.

Earlier, Ukraine's air force reported that Russian drones had entered NATO-member Poland's airspace, posing a threat to the city of Zamosc, but it subsequently removed that statement from the Telegram messaging app.
In the United States, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said repeated violations of NATO airspace by Russian drones were a sign that "Vladimir Putin is testing our resolve to protect Poland and the Baltic nations."
"After the carnage Putin continues to visit on Ukraine, these incursions cannot be ignored," he said on X.
Republican representative Joe Wilson, a senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a post on X that Russia was "attacking NATO ally Poland" with drones, calling it an "act of war".
Wilson urged U.S. President Donald Trump to respond with sanctions "that will bankrupt the Russian war machine".
"Putin is no longer content just losing in Ukraine while bombing mothers and babies, he is now directly testing our resolve in NATO territory," he said.
Trump, who warmly welcomed Putin to the United States for a summit in August, said over the weekend he was ready to move to a second phase of sanctioning Russia after months of fruitless talks about a peace deal.
It was his strongest indication yet that he may escalate pressure on Moscow or its oil buyers in response to the war in Ukraine.

The European Union's top sanctions official was in Washington on Monday to discuss what would be the first coordinated transatlantic measures against Russia since Trump returned to office in January promising to end the war in 24 hours.
Poland has been on high alert for objects entering its airspace since a stray Ukrainian missile struck a southern Polish village in 2022, killing two people, a few months into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Poland earlier said it would close its border with Belarus on Thursday at midnight local time as a result of Russia-led military exercises taking place in Belarus.
Russia and Belarus' large-scale military exercises, known as the "Zapad" drills, have raised security concerns in neighbouring NATO member states Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
Lithuania said defences along its border with Belarus and Russia would be strengthened due to the exercises.

Marvellee:
FTC first time, what’s the drone doing in Poland abeg

Botragelad:
Source;
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/poland-shoots-down-drones-its-airspace-during-russias-ukraine-attack-calls-2025-09-10/

youngbabaj:
I believe peace will be achieved one day,

And Nigeria will be great

youngbabaj:
I believe peace will be achieved one day,

And Nigeria will be great

thesicilian:
These countries in between warring nations are really trying. There should be an international law against flying of fighter jets and drones over an independent nation's airspace without authorization.

Zionmdde:
I don't sha know why everybody cannot just live in peace. Death will come for everybody at its set time, why all the killings then.

brain54:
This is pure act of aggression...

What was Russian jets doing in polish air space. They are right and have a right to shoot it down under international laws.

But I know a lot of the people that would support this won't criticize or condemn isreal for carrying out strikes inside an independent country Quarta.

They will turn a blind eye to that.

In pastor's voice: somebody say Hypocrites!

PepeXKermit:
You dey talk like say u never get grieviance with anybody before. Even your neighbors and family members. Abeg go and sitdown.

brain54:
There are laws against flying over countries airspace...


Under international laws is an act of aggression. The country whose airspace is violated has a right to shoot such planes down which is what Poland did.

Some countries however try to evade radar detection which probably was what the Russian jet was trying to do!

Gotocourt:
Not even Saudi Arabia will harbor terrorist, they know the consequences. A quick reminder, Qatar stopped officially protecting Hamas officials resident in Qatar. Isreal will definitely come for your head 👌📌💯

Dpharisee:
Israel violated Qatari airspace to bomb HAMAS negotiators and some of you celebrated as good development and killing of terrorists, Russia is also destroying Neo Nazis in Ukraine who are supported by Poland and the collective West and you guys are suddenly advocates of obeying international law

brain54:
Because they are a terrorist state and don't tolerate freedom of opinion...?

Pls don't try to justify isreal's actions. It's an escalation of the war and against international laws.

It's state terrorism!

Gotocourt:
I just added a image to my previous post, diplomacy is for the weak plus the laws

maivd:
Russia wants to drag more countries into the way

brain54:
This is pure act of aggression...

What was Russian jets doing in polish air space. They are right and have a right to shoot it down under international laws.

But I know a lot of the people that would support this won't criticize or condemn isreal for carrying out strikes inside an independent country Quarta.

They will turn a blind eye to that.

In pastor's voice: somebody say Hypocrites!