Poland Shoots Down Russian Drones, Testing NATO’s Eastern Flank Air Defense Shield
Russian Drones Shot Down in Polish Airspace WARSAW, Sept 10, 2025 – Poland’s military confirmed it shot down several drones that intruded into Polish airspace overnight, as Russia launched a wide-scale aerial attack on neighboring Ukraine reuters.com. Polish air defense forces, on heightened alert, tracked over ten objects crossing from the Ukrainian border region; those deemed a threat “were neutralised,” the military’s operational command said reuters.com. The incursion was immediately denounced as “an act of aggression” by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who noted it posed “a real threat to the safety of our citizens” reuters.com. Poland’s armed forces scrambled in the pre-dawn hours after radars detected a “huge
