WSJ learned about Germany's plans to send two fighter jets to the border with Poland
Germany is going to send two Eurofighter fighter jets to the border with Poland amid the incident with the UAV. This was reported on September 12 by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing a German official.
"Germany will also deploy two Eurofighter fighter jets on its border with Poland, a senior German official said," the publication says.
The newspaper also quotes the words of a NATO general in charge of air defense. He said that one of the main problems of the alliance is the lack of such systems on the eastern border. A number of anti-aircraft systems were transferred to Ukraine, which limited NATO's capabilities in this matter.
In addition, officials from the UK told the WSJ that Europe is considering strengthening Poland's borders with additional air defenses. However, it is still unclear who will provide the equipment and what it will be.
On September 10, the Operational Command of the Armed Forces of Poland (RFA) reported on the defeat of several drones by the Polish military that violated the country's airspace. Later, Reuters, citing sources in NATO, said that the alliance did not regard the incident with the drone in Poland as an attack.
On the same day, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that European allies had made an offer to the Polish authorities to strengthen the country's air defense system in connection with the incident involving the penetration of drones into the republic's airspace.
The next day, on September 11, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Poland's baseless accusations against Russia against the background of the drone incident were part of Europe's usual anti-Russian rhetoric.
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