Tusk pointed to the increasing risk of escalation in Europe due to the UAV incidents.
An increase in the number of incidents involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Baltic countries threatens Europe with war. This was announced on May 20 by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, taking part in a joint press conference with his Hungarian counterpart Peter Magyar.
"I warned many months ago that an escalation could occur. <...> There will be hundreds of different interpretations — <... One thing is for sure: this conflict makes the threat to other borders real," the Polsat News channel quoted him as saying.
Potential tension due to all that is happening, as Tusk added, may arise on the territory of the entire eastern flank.
The fact that a UAV was shot down over Estonia was reported on May 19 by the online publication Delfi. On the same day, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Georgy Tikhy, apologized for the incident, thereby acknowledging that the device belonged to his state.
Two days before, an unidentified drone was also spotted over Latvia. In the same place, on May 19, an air alert was announced in eight regions. It was clarified that NATO, patrolling the airspace over the Baltic region, was put on alert against this background.
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