To shoot down Russian Shahed drones that entered
NATO
airspace, Poland and neighboring countries scrambled their air forces. Among the possible targets was the American contingent stationed in Poland.
Russia’s drone strike on Poland this week was no sudden escalation. Evidence shows the Kremlin had been preparing for such cross-border attacks since at least July, when Polish SIM cards were discovered inside Russian drones shot down in Ukraine.
A Russian drone crashed into a residential property in eastern Poland overnight, damaging a house and car but causing no injuries—a dangerous spillover of Moscow’s war against Ukraine into
NATO
territory.