{"id":18788,"date":"2025-09-11T03:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18788"},"modified":"2025-09-11T03:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:04:05","slug":"poland-downs-drones-in-its-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18788","title":{"rendered":"Poland downs drones in its airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace on Wednesday with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance is known to have fired shots during Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told parliament it was &#8220;the closest we have been to open conflict since World War Two&#8221;, though he also said he had &#8220;no reason to believe we&#8217;re on the brink of war&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Polish F-16 fighter jets, Dutch F-35s, Italian AWACS surveillance planes and NATO mid-air refuelling aircraft scrambled in an operation to shoot down drones entering Polish airspace from Tuesday evening until morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>One drone smashed into pensioner Tomasz Wesolowski&#8217;s two-storey brick house in the eastern Polish village of Wyryki-Wola at 6:30am while he was downstairs watching news about the incursion.<\/p>\n<p>The roof was destroyed and debris was strewn across the bedroom. Wesolowski told Reuters the house &#8220;needs to be demolished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A blackened spot in a field elsewhere in southeastern Poland showed where some other drones had fallen. Moscow denied responsibility for the incident, with a senior diplomat in Poland saying the drones had come from the direction of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s defence ministry said its drones had carried out a major attack on military facilities in western Ukraine but it had not planned to hit any targets in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump plans later on Wednesday to speak with Polish President Karol Nawrocki, a conservative nationalist and political ally whom Trump hosted at the White House last week. &#8220;What&#8217;s with Russia violating Poland&#8217;s airspace with drones? Here we go!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted on Truth Social, without elaborating. The leaders of France, Britain, Germany and Canada were among NATO leaders to condemn the Russian incursion in strong terms.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace on Wednesday with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance is known to have fired shots during Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told parliament it was &#8220;the closest we have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}