Tusk on the idea of shooting down missiles in Ukraine's skies: we need NATO cooperation for this

Poland will talk to NATO allies to discuss the possibility of organizing the downing of Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace heading towards Poland. This was stated by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk during a press conference, and added that Warsaw needs cooperation within the Alliance for this, an UNN correspondent reports.

"We are ... talking about an idea that was ultimately born in Poland about NATO's response to missile attacks, if we are talking about missiles, projectiles that are heading towards Poland and are also on the territory of Ukraine, with the idea of trying to shoot them down without waiting for them to enter NATO territory, but also over Ukrainian soil," Tusk said.

He stated that this seems absolutely logical.

"We need unequivocal cooperation within NATO for this, because this kind of action does require joint NATO responsibility. And it is in the interests of Poland and in the interests of Ukraine that everything that concerns our common security, our joint actions, has the basis of international solidarity, including NATO solidarity. We are open to this, logic shows that it would be much more effective," Tusk said.

He believes that this is not an easy decision.

"That is why we have written down in the document the desire and the need for such a conversation, and we will include our NATO allies in this conversation... I will talk and President Duda will talk with our allies in such a positive spirit that they will seriously think together with us about how to organize this kind of action," Tusk said.

Addendum

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saidthat the security agreement with Poland includes a provision to develop a mechanism to shoot down Russian missiles and drones fired in the airspace of Ukraine in the direction of Poland.