NATO shoots down Russian drones over Poland
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WASHINGTON—Nearly half a day after NATO ordered jet fighters to shoot down Russian drones over Polish territory, President Trump issued his first public comment on the incident on his social-media platform,
NATO allies have held talks about Russian drones entering Polish airspace. Polish and Dutch fighter jets shot down some of these drones.
The Polish military called the incursions an “act of aggression.” It said the drones crossed the border during a wave of Russian strikes in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump reacted Wednesday with a degree of bemusement toward Russia’s drone incursion into Poland, a NATO member that Trump has previously vowed to defend amid heightened tensions with Moscow.
A NATO spokesperson said the incident marked the first time that NATO aircraft "have engaged potential threats in allied airspace."
Russia's drone incursions into NATO members risk escalating into "exchange (of) the use of military power against each other", Lithuanian Foreign Affairs minister Kestutis Budrys told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday,