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Polish Overseas Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on the Overseas Ministry in Warsaw on February 5, 2024.
The Gentleman Report
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Poland is thinking about a Ukrainian proposal to intercept Russian rockets which are heading in the right direction to hit towns in Ukraine or input Polish territory, Polish Overseas Minister Radosław Sikorski mentioned following a speech on the American Endeavor Institute at the sidelines of the NATO summit on Friday.
“We’re a frontline state and Russian missiles breach our airspace – we think by means of mistake,” Sikorski mentioned.
Sikorski defined that some missiles fired from round St. Petersburg fly alongside the Polish border thru Belarusian airspace, ahead of in short coming into Polish airspace for roughly 40 seconds ahead of hitting objectives inside of Ukraine.
“Our predicament is the next: if we shoot them down handiest after they input our airspace, the particles is a risk to our electorate and to our assets,” he mentioned.
“And the Ukrainians are announcing, ‘Please, we can now not thoughts, do it over our airspace after they’re in approaching threat of crossing into Polish territory,’” he mentioned, “To my thoughts, that’s self-defense however we’re exploring the speculation.”
Previous this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Warsaw to signal a safety cooperation settlement between the 2 nations.
Sikorski mentioned the speculation of Poland downing Russian missiles used to be mentioned in that settlement.
“At this degree, that is an concept. What our settlement mentioned is we can discover this concept,” he mentioned.
On Wednesday, Polish Protection Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz informed Polish nationwide radio carrier Polskie Radio 24 that this type of resolution would handiest be made with NATO allies.
“If NATO does now not make this type of resolution, Poland won’t make it in my view,” Kosiniak-Kamysz mentioned.
