Polish international minister urges allies to contemplate intercepting Russian drones over Ukraine

Polish Overseas Minister Radosław Sikorski has recommended that Western allies ought to think about intercepting Russian drones and missiles in Ukraine’s airspace after Russian UAVs violated Polish airspace.

Supply: German TV information service Tagesschau, citing Sikorski in a remark to German media, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Sikorski stated that it’s "value contemplating" the interception of Russian drones and missiles over Ukraine.

"Technically, we, as NATO and the EU, could be able to doing this, however it isn’t a choice that Poland could make alone – solely along with our allies," he famous.

Sikorski additionally proposed coordinated motion in opposition to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet within the Baltic Sea.

He recommended that Germany or NATO set up a maritime management zone within the North Sea and thus monitor the entry of the Russian vessels into the Baltic Sea.

Sikorski defined that if even one among these Russian vessels – two of which have sunk within the Sea of Azov – have been to sink within the Baltic Sea, the EU would face "an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented scale".

Background:

  • Norbert Röttgen, deputy head of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group within the Bundestag, additionally referred to as for the implementation of a defence drone procurement programme following the Russian UAV incursion into Polish airspace.
  • The most recent knowledge indicated that wreckage of Russian drones had been present in 17 settlements throughout 5 Polish voivodeships, most of them – 10 – in Lublin Voivodeship.
  • In opposition to this backdrop, the North Atlantic Alliance determined to launch an operation referred to as Jap Sentry to strengthen its jap flank.
  • On 14 September, Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed a decree permitting international navy forces to stay on Polish territory as a part of Jap Sentry.

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