EU says Russian UAV over Poland looks intentional, calls for ‘drone wall’

The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas says Russia appears to have intentionally violated Polish airspace in an incident that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says involved a “huge number” of Russian drones.

“Last night in Poland we saw the most serious European airspace violation by Russia since the war began, and indications suggest it was intentional, not accidental,” Kallas writes on X.

“The EU stands in full solidarity with Poland. Russia’s war is escalating, not ending,” Kallas wrote.

“Last night the Polish airspace was violated by a huge number of Russian drones. Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down,” Tusk says.

Ukraine’s air force says Russian forces launched 415 drones and 43 missiles in the attack that Ukrainian officials said left at least one dead. Air defense units downed 386 drones and 27 missiles, the air force adds.

Drone components were found near a cemetery in the town of Czesniki in southeastern Poland, a local prosecutor’s office says in a statement. No one was injured.

Polsat news reports that a drone also struck a residential building in Wyryki, in eastern Poland, but nobody was injured, citing local police.

Following the incident, European Union Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius says the EU must develop a “drone wall” along the eastern flank of its shared borders.

“Once again Russia tests frontier states, EU & NATO,” Kubilius writes on X. “We shall work together with Member States, frontier countries and Ukraine. Russia will be stopped.”