Alliance defense: Russian drones make Poland and Romania nervous

After shooting, suspected Russian drones in Poland have been there and in Romania on Saturday. Drones that are used in the Border Regions in the Ukraine War and enter the NATO area or come close to it are now suspected of being directed there by Russia. As the leadership command of the Polish army announced in Warsaw, because of the risk of a Russian drone attack on neighboring regions of Ukraine, fighter jets in the afternoon. The ground -based air defense systems were made very willing.

Romania’s army also saw a drone on Saturday in the Tulcea region of Tulcea on the Danube Delta near the Ukrainian border. Two F-16 fight jets from the Fetesti Air Force Base rose to an observation mission. According to the German Press Agency in Romania, NATO also alerted two German Eurofighter, which are supposed to protect the airspace there.

Selenskyj does not believe in

The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj held up Russia after the air alarms in neighboring countries. The Russian military knew exactly where their drones fly, and that was also not an ineffectiveness of any subordinate commanders, Selenskyj wrote on Telegram. “This is an obvious expansion of the war by Russia.” This procedure requires preventive acts of the West. “Do not wait for dozens of Shahed (drones) and ballistic rockets to finally make decisions,” Selenskyj wrote to the Europeans.

Majority fears Russian attack on NATO state

According to a survey, a majority of the Germans are concerned about an attack on a NATO state like Poland or Lithuania in the near future. According to the survey of the opinion research institute Insa on behalf of the “Bild am Sonntag”, 62 percent of the 1,002 respondents fear such an attack. 28 percent do not do that, 10 percent do not know.

Tusk speaks of “preventive operation”

The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk had announced on Saturday at X: “Due to the threat of Russian drones that operate above Ukraine near the Polish border, preventive surgery of the air forces began, both the Polish and ally.” According to the PAP agency, the airport in Lublin in the southeast of the country was temporarily closed for civil air traffic. After about two hours, the Polish army announced that the operation of the air forces and the increased willingness to alert had ended.

Such alarms in Poland and Romania have been more common since the beginning of the war. But on a Russian air raid on Ukraine on Wednesday night, a large number of drones in Poland and thus the NATO had flown, and the Polish Air Force and other NATO allies shot some of the missiles for the first time. Since then, Poland has received increased support from NATO allies. Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian attack war since February 2022.

Drone in Romania disappeared from the radar again

In Romania, the drone on Saturday did not overflowed inhabited areas and was not at risk, the Ministry of Defense reported in Bucharest. The region is sparsely populated. Nevertheless, disaster protection had warned the population from the air against the danger of possibly falling objects. The Romanian fighter jets had followed the drone about 20 kilometers to the Romanian Danube town of Chilia Veche, after which the object had disappeared from the radar.

Since the beginning of the war, ruins of Russian drows on Romanian territory had fallen several times in the Danube Delta, mostly after Russian attacks on the ports on sight on the Ukrainian Danube bank. Every time Romania’s authorities and NATO had stated that it was about Russia unintentional incidents.

Ukraine attacks oil infrastructure deeply in Russia

According to the authorities, a refinery of the oil company Batschneft has burned in the Russian sub -Republic of Baschkortostan on Volga after a Ukrainian drone attack. According to Republic chief Radi Chabirow, the system was attacked by at least two drones that one had fallen onto the company premises.

Drone attacks on Russian oil systems are now an integral part of the Ukrainian defense strategy. On the one hand, this is intended to interrupt the military’s fuel supply itself, and on the other hand, Russia is to be used to take an important source of income for war financing. What is new is that the attacks are now taking place during the day – and that is deep in the Russian hinterland. Baschkortostan is around 1,400 kilometers from the border to Ukraine. Another drone attack in the Perm area near the Ural Mountains became known later. Here the distance is even more than 1,500 kilometers.