Poland rejects Trump

Vision – The senior higher officials of Poland dismissed on Friday the suggestion of President Trump that a great incursion of Russian drones in the Polish airspace could have been an error of the military of Vladimir Putin.

“We would also want the drone attack against Poland to be an error. But it was not. And we know it,” said Prime Minister Donald Tusk in a message posted on social networks.

The Polish authorities said they had recovered parts of 17 Russian manufacturing drones, which fell without causing important injuries or damages in the east of the country on Wednesday.

The Poles and Allied combat aircraft of the Nether’s NATO were fought to intercept the drones, a first response of this type to the Air Russian military incursions in the NATO airspace since Putin launched their large -scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago.

On Thursday, the relatively new and conservative president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, in a publication on social networks, described the incursion of Russian drones “nothing more than an attempt to prove our capabilities and response. It was an attempt to prove the mechanisms of action within NATO and our ability to respond.”

Other European capitals and the European Union also described the raid of a Russian test of the NATO alliance resolution in front of Russia’s current war in Ukrainebut Mr. Trump suggested otherwise.

“It could have been a mistake,” journalists told the journalists on Thursday night when asked about the incident. A day before, Mr. Trump issued a brief reaction to the incident, saying on his social platform of truth: “What about Russia violating the airspace of Poland with drones? Here we go!”

The White House offered no clarification of Mr. Trump’s comments.

Previously, the United States ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said in a publication on social networks that the United States stopped “by our NATO allies in the face of these airspace rapes and will defend every centimeter of NATO territory.”

Poland’s Deputy Minister of Defense, Cezary Tomczyk, also rejected Mr. Trump’s suggestion on Thursday that drone raid could have been inadvertent.

“I think this is a message that should reach President Trump today: there is no doubt of an error: this was a deliberate Russian attack,” Polsat News told the television network.

“On the night when 19 Russian drones crossed Poland, 400 (drones) plus 40 crossed missiles to Ukraine,” added Poles Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, in a shared video message on social networks, before a visit to the capital of Ukraine. “These were not errors.”

Poland requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the incursion of Russian drones, which will take place on Friday afternoon.

• War
• Ukraine
• Donald Trump
• Russia
• Vladimir Putin
• Poland
• NATO