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Poland Invokes NATO Article 4 After Russian Drone Airspace Violation
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that Warsaw is requesting consultations with NATO allies under Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty after Russian drones violated Poland’s airspace on the night of September 10.
Tusk made the announcement in an address to the Sejm, Polsat News reported on September 10
Article 4 of the NATO treaty stipulates that member states hold consultations whenever they consider the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of a member to be under threat.
“Consultations with our allies have taken on the character of an official request to invoke Article 4 of NATO,” Tusk told lawmakers.
According to Polstat News, he stressed that invoking the article is only the beginning. “We expect much greater support during the consultations. This is a confrontation that Russia has declared against the free world,” the Prime Minister said.
Tusk also emphasized that “today there are no grounds to claim that we are in a state of war.”
“But there is no doubt that this provocation is incomparably more dangerous for Poland than the previous ones,” he added.
Earlier, it was reported that Russian drones that crossed into Polish airspace overnight on September 10 appear to have flown along routes tracing major roads and radar stations in the direction of Warsaw and Lublin.
