A handful of seconds were enough to raise the danger of the war encroachment into NATO territory to the highest level. In the long series of Russian bombing attacks on Ukraine - including Kiev and the western city of Lviv - one of Moscow's cruise missiles briefly breached the skies of Poland , Warsaw's army said.
“The object entered Polish airspace near the city of Oserdow and remained there for 39 seconds,” reported the armed forces who, in response, took off fighter planes to defend the territory .
This is yet another episode for Poland which is closely experiencing the invasion which has known no respite for 760 days: a similar incident occurred on 29 December last, when a Russian missile penetrated Polish airspace for several minutes before return to Ukraine. But the most dramatic incident occurred in November 2022, when two people were killed by a Kiev air defense missile that fell on the Polish village of Przewodow, near the border. Before the missile was identified as Ukrainian, there were fears that NATO could be drawn into an escalation of the conflict with Russia .
The Polish Foreign Ministry has announced that it will ask Moscow for explanations for "this new violation of its airspace" , which demonstrates how the conflicts between Russia and the West are also taking place on the ground, as well as in diplomatic offices.
In fact, skirmishes in the skies on the borders of the war are frequent, and in the last few hours the Moscow authorities have reported that they had taken off a fighter to "intercept" two US bombers which, according to them, were approaching the Russian borders.
(Unioneonline)
