Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has officially confirmed that his country is reaching out to NATO allies. The main goal is to hold consultations under Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty after the Russian drone incursion on the night of September 10.
Points of attention
- While Poland is not currently in a state of war, the situation is deemed highly provocative and concerning from Poland's perspective.
- The Russian drones that violated Polish airspace originated from Belarus, marking a new level of threat escalation according to official sources.
Poland will consult with NATO members
As Polsat News notes, Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty provides that members shall hold joint consultations.
This only happens if there is a threat to the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the member states.
Consultations with allies took the form of a formal request to invoke NATO's Article 4.
Donald Tusk
Prime Minister of Poland
He also made it clear that Article 4 is just the beginning.
As it turned out, official Warsaw is counting on much greater support during the consultations.
"This is a confrontation that Russia has declared to the free world," Tusk emphasized.
According to him, there is currently no reason to claim that Poland is in a state of war.
But there is no doubt that this provocation is incomparably more dangerous from Poland's point of view than the previous ones, the Polish Prime Minister warned.
He also confirmed that the Russian drones that violated his country's airspace had for the first time flown directly from the territory of Belarus.
