Hey, welcome to the forum! I get why air raid sirens and alerts can be scary, but drone incursions aren't considered an "attack" and hence won't violate Article 5. These airspace violations are just intimidation tactics. It's a different story if hundreds of drones are sent into NATO airspace to attack bases and infrastructure, however.
A very good live map of air raid alerts (as well as other types of alerts) in UA is available at Air Raid Alert Map of Ukraine
Yeah I ended up finding that site to verify I posted it in reports shortly after, I’m used to going off twitter but couldn’t find reports on there.
We were referring to polish airspace as there were several tweets claiming drones had entered their airspace.
None of us are doing this. It's the NATO response that spooked me personally. This is not a normal and proportionate response, especially the alerts being issued after the drone in Romania was downed.
Thanks! Just a bit nervous with everything going on. I’ve been following Russia-Ukraine since the onset (partially due to a personal interest in history, partly due to a fear of nuclear war) and can’t remember a time where it was *this* volatile, considering the recent drone incursions and Zapad exercises.
The Polish civil defense early warning system sucks, especially compared to its state-of-the art Ukrainian counterpart. Who knows; maybe they'll get off their asses and do something about it now that the cat's out of the bag (wouldn't bet on it...
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This is going to be a very crude analogy, I apologise in advance:
Maybe they wanted to just have a tour of the cockpit, by the Trump's logics.
I think they're trying to say that openly showing off missiles in Kaliningrad (the entire oblast is very close to Poland) is in itself problematic.
It's an excercise, what did they expect to see?
It's unusual but not unheard of.
