Deputy Minister of National Defense: 40,000 soldiers on the border with Belarus
Deputy Minister Cezary Tomczyk, in Wednesday's edition of the"Gość Wydarzeń" program on Polsat News, emphasized that Poland is prepared for the Russian-Belarusian Zapad exercises, which begin on September 12. They are planned for training grounds in Belarus, right on the Polish border."Poland has been preparing for the Zapad-2025 exercises for many months. The Polish army conducted exercises in which over 30,000 Polish soldiers participated, as well as NATO soldiers, to adequately respond to Zapad-2025," Tomczyk said. He recalled that the Russian and Belarusian exercises are considered offensive exercises."That's how the war in Ukraine began, but also the aggression against Georgia. Therefore, the Polish army was preparing for it. In the coming days, we will have approximately 40,000 soldiers on the border." soldiers - declared the deputy head of the Ministry of National Defense.
Tomczyk: A dead end in calculation
The Deputy Minister of National Defense admitted that the violation of airspace by Russian drones on the night of September 9-10 is being linked to the"Zapad-2025" military exercises. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, 19 drones intruded over Poland. Those that posed a threat were shot down. Cezary Tomczyk responded on Polsat News to accusations that"Polish defense systems are ineffective." "Calculations that indicate the cost of destroying one drone are a dead end. Drones are obviously many times cheaper than the missiles that destroy them. This conclusion can be drawn from the conflict between Israel and Iran or Ukraine. However, from a state's perspective, nothing is more valuable than the lives of its citizens."There should be no scaling here," Tomczyk emphasized.
Russia maintains that there were no Russian drones in Poland
A day after Russian drones violated Poland's borders, the Kremlin, the Russian Foreign Ministry, and the Russian Defense Ministry denied that the drones shot down in Poland belonged to the Russian military. Belarus, in turn, argued that it had informed Poland and Lithuania about the drones that had"gone astray" (read also: "Gen. Wiesław Kukuła: The Belarusians warned us. 'It was helpful for us'"). Meanwhile, Ukraine pledged to help Poland improve its warning system. The European Union condemned the violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas published a statement on behalf of twenty-seven member states." A serious escalation of Russia's actions, an aggressive and reckless act, which threatens the security of EU citizens, regional stability and international peace," the EU foreign policy chief wrote in a statement, commenting on the intrusion of drones into our country's airspace.
You can read more about the events of the previous night in the text"Gen. Wiesław Kukuła: The Belarusians warned us. 'It was helpful for us'".
Sources: Polsat News, IAR
