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Reuters: Poland downs Russian drones, first time NATO member has fired in Ukraine war

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Key points:

  • Russia denies that the drones were its own, and says it has no intentions of stoking a war with NATO. Contrarily, Russia says it is Western Europe worsening relations by suggesting Russia is a threat.
  • According to Poland, this is the first time Russian missiles or drones have been shot down in Polish airspace, and this is also the greatest number of Russian missiles or drones to enter Polish airspace.
  • Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk has invoked article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, but not article 5. NATO does not view the Russian drones as an attack, but an "intentional incursion". So this isn't WW3, yet.
  • EU diplomat Kaja Kallas has called on Europeans to "invest in Europe's defence" in response to how "Russia's war is escalating, not ending".
  • Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky called the drones "an extremely dangerous precedent for Europe" and has called for a "joint response by [...] Ukraine, Poland, all Europeans, [and] the United States."

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