The UAVs could have been disabled and were falling \u201call over the place,\u201d the US president has said<\/p>\n
The drones that violated Poland\u2019s airspace could have been \u201cdisabled\u201d and lost control, US President Donald Trump has suggested.
\nWarsaw has claimed that 19 drones entered the country\u2019s airspace on September 10, accusing Moscow of staging a provocation in order to test NATO\u2019s response. Multiple EU officials, including top diplomat Kaja Kallas, have called the incident a \u201cdeliberate violation.\u201d\u00a0
\nTrump was asked about the affair in an interview with Fox News on Thursday. The US president refused to say whether the drone incursion was deliberate or not, suggesting the drones could have simply strayed after being subjected to electronic interference.
\n\u201cYou know, I can\u2019t comment on whether it was a mistake or not. They shouldn\u2019t have been there, let\u2019s face it. Supposedly, they were disabled. You know, they disabled drones today. The great attack on a drone is disabling it, and they fall all over the place,\u201d Trump stated, adding that he was very \u201cdisappointed\u201d by the incident.
\nThe latest of Trump\u2019s remarks on the incident differed from the statements he\u2019d made earlier this week, when the US president suggested it \u201ccould have been a mistake.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk doubled down on his accusations against Russia shortly after, insisting the incident wasn\u2019t a mistake. On Friday, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that anyone who doubts Warsaw\u2019s narrative is \u201ceither the author or an accomplice of Russian propaganda.\u201d
\nRussian officials have pointed out that drones used during strikes on military installations in Ukraine do not have sufficient range to reach deep into Poland, suggesting the incident could have been a false flag staged by Kiev in a bid to bring NATO into a direct confrontation with Moscow.
\nWarsaw has refused to cooperate in investigating the drone incident and has dismissed facts provided by the Russian military, Moscow\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday. Such behavior proves that Poland is not interested in knowing the truth, she said.\u00a0
\n\u201cThis is clearly yet another element in a large-scale information campaign aimed at demonizing Russia and mobilizing additional support for the Kiev regime, as well as an attempt to undermine a political settlement of the Ukraine conflict,\u201d Zakharova stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The UAVs could have been disabled and were falling \u201call over the place,\u201d the US president has said The drones that violated Poland\u2019s airspace could have been \u201cdisabled\u201d and lost…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t