Poles, nothing happened. A Conversation with Mark BLOWER

– abroad Minister Radosław Sikorski and any officials of the President's Chancellery claimed that our troops – like NATO partners – passed the exam during the Russian attack. However, General Ben Hodges, erstwhile commander of the U.S. land forces in Europe, called it an unsuccessful effort to deter.

– With respect to the effectiveness of the measures, we have been faced with a much oversized reaction. Our armed forces in cooperation with allies utilized very costly systems, including F-16 and F-35 fighters, rockets, each of which cost more than a million dollars, in order to destruct many times cheaper Russian drones. If specified attacks were to be repeated in the future, if their strength and scale were to increase, it would shortly turn out that they would have decreased the capabilities of Polish aviation. Our consequence besides revealed evident weaknesses, the largest of which is the deficiency of systems to combat drones, which would be much cheaper.

– From what you've said, it's conceivable that akin incidents or alternatively attacks will repeat.

– That's what we should assume. Not only the number of these attacks and their scale may increase, but besides the number of targets. Now the Russians have utilized the unarmed Gerber “forbade” drones and, as General Wiesław Kukuła, Chief of the General Staff, besides the Geran drones, which are armed and they were destroyed by fighters. Let me remind you that Ukraine is attacked by drone swarms of up to 800 units at once.