Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk—whose country shot down what it said were Russian drones violating its airspace and threatening its security in early September—called for NATO allies to abandon any illusions about the gravity of the situation.
“The first illusion was and still is that there is no war. Some of us like to use definitions such as full aggression, incident, or provocation. No, this is war. A new type of war, very complex, but it is war,” Tusk said at the meeting in Copenhagen, Poland’s RMF24 reported, originally in Polish.
Tusk also said that “provocations from Russia in the Baltic happen almost every day”.
“I received a message from Warsaw that we have another incident near the port of Szczecin,” Tusk said.
“Two days ago, there was an incident close to our Petrobaltic platform and our pipeline. Both involved Russian ships. We have new incidents in our region—I mean the Baltic Sea—every week, almost every day.”
Of Ukraine, Tusk said: “This is our war, and if Ukraine loses, it will mean our defeat.”
