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A Polish Soldier, an Unusual Radar Dot and Then NATO Jets

After Russian drones entered Poland, the country scrambled to shoot them down. Western officials concluded that the incursion was to probe their defenses.

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A house damaged in Lublin, eastern Poland, this month, after Russian drones were shot down over the area.
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NATO Says It Scrambled Fighter Jets to Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland

The incursion was the first time alliance planes had engaged enemy targets in NATO airspace. Poland’s leader called it “a large-scale provocation.”

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Polish military and government officials at a meeting in Warsaw on Wednesday after the drone incursions.
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