Spain, Britain, Italy and Sweden will join NATO's Operation Eastern Guard, which aims to strengthen the alliance's eastern flank. This was stated in a statement published on the organization's website.
„Four German Eurofighter fighter jets, stationed at an air base in northeastern Germany, have been put on high alert. In addition, three helicopters from the Czech Republic arrived in Poland on September 14. Spain and Britain will announce their support for the operation in the near future. Italy and Sweden have also indicated that they have decided to facilitate its implementation,“ the text notes.
On September 12, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced the launch of Operation Eastern Guard “guard“. It is the result of consultations under Article 4 of the NATO Treaty, which were launched on September 10 at the request of Warsaw in connection with the incident with drones entering Poland.
On the morning of September 10, the operational command of the Polish army announced the destruction of several objects identified as unmanned aerial vehicles that entered the country's airspace. According to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, 19 violations of the air border were recorded on the night of September 10.
As stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian armed forces at the same time carried out strikes on enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex in Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr regions, as well as in Vinnytsia and Lviv, and there were no planned targets for destruction on Polish territory. The range of the unmanned aerial vehicles that allegedly crossed the border with Poland did not exceed 700 km. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that it was ready for consultations with the Polish side “on this topic“.