NATO, Poland and drones
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Denmark, France and Germany have joined a new mission to bolster the military alliance's eastern flank after Russian drones flew into Poland on Wednesday.
Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down.
Article 4 allows member states to start a formal discussion within the alliance about threats to their security. It does not commit the alliance to military action.
The incursion of a significant number of Russian drones into Poland is a dramatic and unsettling escalation of the war in Ukraine.
NATO says it's bulking up its defensive posture on its eastern flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine with new equipment
Nato fighter jets shot down Russian drones over Poland in the first ever direct engagement between the Western alliance and Moscow.
Kyiv fears that Europe will react to Russia’s drone incursion into Poland by keeping its air defenses to itself instead of helping embattled Ukraine.