WARSAW: The UN Security Council has called an emergency meeting for Friday to discuss violations of Poland’s airspace after Warsaw accused Moscow of a drone raid on its territory.
Poland has branded the incident, which saw forces shoot down several drones overnight, as a deliberate and “unprecedented” attack on the country, NATO, and the European Union. While Moscow has denied targeting the country and stated there was no evidence the drones were Russian, Poland’s European partners have backed Warsaw. The Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Sweden all summoned their Russian ambassadors on Thursday to protest.
Germany announced that it would expand its role in a NATO mission to defend Polish airspace. According to Polish officials, drones violated its airspace 19 times, but there were no casualties, and damage was limited to a house and a car. Polish President Karol Nawrocki described the incident as “an attempt to test the mechanism of action within NATO and our readiness to respond.”
Poland’s National Security Council met on Thursday, and the defense minister was set to brief parliament on the latest findings. The South Korean presidency of the Security Council in New York announced that the meeting on “the violation of Polish airspace by Russia” would take place on Friday at 3 p.m. (1900 GMT).
