The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting at the request of Poland to discuss the violation of Polish airspace this week, the Poland Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday (11).
The announcement occurs after an unprecedented operation in which Poland, the member country of the European Union and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), with the support of allies ,.
“(We are) Calling the world’s attention to this unprecedented attack on Russian drones against a member of the UN, EU and NATO,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told local radio.
“I already attended the UN (security) advice in the past and it seems to me that our arguments were convincing,” he continued.
Moscow denied responsibility for the incident, with a senior diplomat in Poland stating that the drones came from Ukraine, which Russia invaded in 2022.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the devices made a major attack on military facilities in western Ukraine, but.
Drone Invasion from Russia
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that after the country’s airspace invasion of Russia during attacks against Ukraine.
The government reported that 19 Russian drones invaded Polish airspace and those representing threat were slaughtered. Poland aircraft and NATO allies were mobilized in the operation.
“The fact that these drones, which represented a threat to security, have been slaughtered changes the political situation. Therefore, allied consultations assumed the form of a formal request to activate Article 4 of NATO Treaty,” said Tusk.
The article provides that the parties must be consulted whenever “the territorial integrity, political independence or security” of any of them is threatened.
Since NATO’s creation in 1949, Article 4 was summoned seven times, being the latest in February 2022, after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Countries that border Ukraine have previously reported that missiles or russian drones have entered their airspace during the war, but not, and there is no record that they have been slaughtered.
