Tusk about an incidental in Lithuania. "There may be an escalation"

On Wednesday he arrived in Warsaw Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyarwho met with the head of the Polish government. During a joint press conference, among another things, the subject of the Wednesday incidental in Lithuania appeared. In the morning, there was an air alarm. Residents were asked to shelter and traffic at the capital airport was suspended.

- I'm sorry. I warned many months ago that the situation may be escalated Not only erstwhile it comes to the Ukrainian-Russian war, but besides erstwhile it comes to the full east flank," said Tusk, referring to this incident.

Air Alert in Lithuania. Donald Tusk: I warned you

Reports from Lithuania are in the context of a series of incidents involving drones that violate the airspace of the Baltic States. Tuesday Romanian F-16 fighters NATO mission in Lithuania shot over Estonia most likely a Ukrainian drone.

According to Ukraine, the Kremlin is liable for specified incidents. "Russia continues to redirect Ukrainian drones over the Baltic States by means of electronic combat. Moscow is doing this on purpose, in parallel with expanding propaganda. We apologize to Estonia and all our Baltic friends for specified unintended incidents" - said the spokesperson for the Ministry of abroad Affairs in Kiev Heorhiy Tychyj via the X platform on Tuesday.

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- I'm sorry. This war leads to, of course, hundreds of different interpretations, whether Ukrainian drone later or Russian. 1 thing is certain that this war causes The threat to another borders is indeed real - said Tusk during the conference.

As he said, "he is not amazed that for respective days there have been signs that chaos can besides affect our neighbours - especially the Baltic States, not due to them."

Donald Tusk on incidents in the Baltic States. "The threat is real"

- I'm sorry. We'd like to avoid bad events, but I I'm not 1 of those who will close their eyes to reality. and pretended that nothing was happening - Tusk pointed out. He stressed that although there is no direct threat to Poland at present, the threat of various types of provocations becomes a fact.

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In April Tusk gave interview for "Financial Times"in which he stated that he sometimes "had any problems" with the belief that Article 5 of the Washington Treaty o mutual defence of allies in NATO It's inactive valid. He stressed that the US treats Poland as 1 of the best and closest allies in Europe, but it is crucial how it would work in practice if "something happened".

According to him, "the biggest and most crucial question for Europe is whether the United States is ready to be as loyal as described in our treaties." At the same time, he warned that Russia could attack an Alliance associate in the position of "more months than years". He said, The EU should strengthen its own common defence clause Article 42(7) of the Treaty on EU.

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