Poland closest to the conflict since the Second World War after a Russian drone attack

Only a week after President Trump met Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the White House, Russia dismissed a dozen drones in the NATO nation on Wednesday.

The aggression prompted NATO allies to respond militarily to the apparent Russian attack and, for the first time, Poland was the closest to open conflicts since the Second World War.

The soldiers patrol the street after a drone or a similar object struck a residential building according to the local authorities, following violations of Polish airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine, in the municipality of Wyryki, Poland on September 10, 2025. (Agencja wybrcza.pl/jakub orzechowski / via reuters)

NATO warns Russia after Poland has shot down a large number ” of drones that violated its airspace

On Wednesday, the Kremlin said that there was “no evidence” that the drones were “of Russian origin” after Andrei Ordash, the chief diplomat of Moscow in Poland who was summoned by Warsaw, told Russian State Media Outlet Ria, “we consider the accusations as base.”

“We know one thing-these drones were flying from the management of Ukraine,” he added, according to a translation by a DW report.

Ordash’s comments contradicted the evaluations by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said that “at least two Russian drones who entered the Polish territory overnight used a Belarusian airspace.

“In total, at least dozens of Russian drones moved along the Ukraine-Bearus border and in the Western regions of Ukraine, approaching targets in Ukraine and, apparently, in Poland,” he added.

President Donald Trump shakes the hand of Polish President Karol Nawrocki, during a meeting at the Oval Blanche office, Wednesday September 3, 2025 in Washington. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)

Neither NATO, the White House nor the Poland Ministry of Poland immediately answered questions from Fox News Digital on the question of whether the drones that would have entered Polish airspace did it intentionally.

Although a White House manager told Fox News Digital that “President Trump and the White House will follow reports from Poland, and President Trump is scheduled to speak with President Nawrocki today”.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday in Parliament that at least 19 Russian drones entered Poland airspace and eight crash sites were confirmed where they seem to have been slaughtered by NATO forces, although information on exact figures is still collected, reported the Associated Press.

An infographic shows a map of Russian drones slaughtered in Poland which violated its airspace during strikes on Ukraine on September 10, 2025. (Photo by Yasin Demici / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Poland slats drones in its airspace during the Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in a statement on Wednesday that “a full assessment of the incident was underway”.

“What is clear is that last night’s violation is not an isolated incident,” he added in reference to similar situations in which Russian drones have increasingly crossed NATO borders in recent months.

Tusk called the incident “a large -scale provocation” and declared “the situation is serious, and no one doubts that we must prepare for various scenarios”.

Rutte said that NATO leaders held a meeting this morning after Poland promulgated article 4, which triggers urgent talks “whenever, in the opinion of one of them, territorial integrity, political independence or the security of one of the parties is threatened.”

Rutte confirmed that the attack on night drones not only scrambled Polish war planes, but also Dutch F-35s, Italian airborne alarm and control systems, a NATO multi-roll oil transport system for air supply to air and German patriots were “activated” and “managed to defend the territory of NATO”.

A member of the Polish army inspects a damaged house, after Russian drones violated Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine and some were killed by Poland, Wyryki, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, September 10, 2025. (Kacper Pempel / Reuters)

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“This is the first time that NATO planes have been depicting potential threats to allied airspace,” said Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, American army colonel Martin L. O’Donnell on Wednesday. “NATO, the supreme headquarters of allied powers in Europe, and all Allied command operations undertake to defend all kilometers from NATO territory, including our airspace.”