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- Minister Donald Tusk warned on Sept 17, 2026 Russia may launch drone or missile attacks on NATO allies.
- Tusk said Russia could label such strikes as accidents to deter NATO members from invoking Article 5.
- Poland scrambled jets and temporarily closed Rzeszow and Lublin airports after a Russian drone strike near the border.
- Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said Poland is adding F-16 and helicopter patrols and reinforcing rapid-response air-defence.