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Warsaw’s Defense Minister says Poles will not shoot down Russian missiles according to the Ukraine-Poland Security Cooperation Agreement without a NATO decision on the joint air defense protocols.
On July 8 Ukraine and Poland signed a security cooperation agreement which included a commitment to consider the use of Polish air defenses to intercept Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace.
Now there is a terrible war in Europe and no excuse for hesitancy to fully help or reward Ukrainians for defending Europe’s eastern flank from being overrun by Kremlin cannon fodder.
Many in the Global South do not want to acknowledge that Russia was and is a colonial power whose war against Ukraine is an effort to rebuild its lost colonial empire.
The Security Services of Ukraine said in a separate statement that it had detained the ship's captain, accusing him of violating rules on entering occupied territory.
Ukraine, in recent weeks, has resorted to consumption restrictions and rolling blackouts after Russian forces stepped up attacks on the country's power stations and transmission lines.
The United States, the Netherlands and Denmark announced Wednesday that the transfer of the planes had begun, saying Ukraine "will be flying operational F-16s this summer."
MAGURA V5 drones hit 14 Russian ships, and destroyed eight in the Russo-Ukrainian war, marking a global first in ship destruction by unmanned vehicles.
Stoltenberg: Ukraine’s path to membership is “irreversible,” F-16s on the way; Biden loses campaign backers by the day; Former Commander-in-Chief reports as Ambassador to UK as EU deals with Orban.