Trump, willing to defend Poland and the Baltic if they follow the Russian aerial incursions

El Periódico

US President Donald Trump said Sunday be open to help defend Poland and Baltic states If Russia accelerates its incursions, after this country has violated Estonia’s airspace. A group of the group that accompanies Trump asked today, during his trip to the funeral of the ultraconservative activist Charlie Kirk, if he will help defend these countries if “Russia continues to accelerate”, to which the president replied: “Yes, I would do it, I would do it”.

On Friday, Three Russian mig-31 fighters The Air Space of Estonia violated for 12 minutes, an incident that adds to another incursion of Russian drones in Poland, last week, and another of a drone in Romania, two Fridays ago. Asked about Russia’s new incursion into Estonian airspace, Trump said he was informed and said: “We don’t like it“.

As a consequence of the Russian rape of Estonian airspace, Tallin invoked article 4 of NATO, to which every member of the Atlantic Alliance can resort to whether its territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened. The action of the Russian fighters was repelled by NATO airplanes in the area.

At low height

In parallel, Poland reported that he had also detected this Friday Two Russian fighters On the Baltic Sea, where they made a low height flight in the vicinity of the Petrobaltic oil extraction platform and violated their security zone, according to the Polish border guard. At the request of Estonia, tomorrow Monday will take place an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York in which the Russian violation of airspace will be addressed.

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