US President Donald Trump said that the drone incident in Poland may have been caused by a mistake.
“It may have been a mistake“, he said, answering questions from journalists on the South Lawn of the White House. Trump did not explain whose mistake he was talking about. “However, I am unhappy with everything about this whole situation. But there is hope that all this will stop“, Trump added, speaking about the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
On the morning of September 10, the operational command of the Polish army announced the destruction of several objects identified as unmanned aerial vehicles and violating the country's airspace. According to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, 19 airspace violations were recorded on the night of September 9-10. In connection with the incident, NATO, at the request of Poland, triggered Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty to begin consultations between the members of the alliance.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, on the night of September 9-10, the Russian armed forces carried out strikes on enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr regions, as well as in Vinnytsia and Lviv. There were no planned targets for destruction on the territory of Poland. The range of the drones, which allegedly crossed the border with Poland, did not exceed 700 km. Moscow said it was ready for consultations with the Polish side “on this topic“.