Poland’s deputy foreign minister on Tuesday said that NATO was considering the possibility of shooting down Russian missiles that stray too close to the alliance’s borders, two days after Poland reported a breach of its airspace.
Warsaw on Sunday said that a Russian cruise missile fired overnight at towns in western Ukraine had crossed Polish airspace for 39 seconds, passing about two kilometres over the border.
The Polish defence minister has said Poland activated all air defence systems and the missile would have been shot down had there been any indication it was heading for a target on Polish territory.
On Tuesday, Poland’s deputy foreign minister Andrzej Szejna told local radio station RMF24 “various concepts are being analysed within NATO” in response to such incidents, “including for such missiles to be shot down when they are very close to the NATO border”.
“But this would have to happen with the consent…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
