Slovak Foreign Minister on Drone Incident in Poland: “I Want to Believe They Were Aimed at Ukraine”.

Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár said he hopes that the drones which crashed in Poland were not intended to strike Polish territory, but were instead meant for Ukraine. His comments were reported by TASR and cited by RBC-Ukraine.

“We express our full solidarity with Poland and support the consultations it initiated under NATO’s Article 4,” Blanár stated. He also renewed his call for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, insisting the conflict cannot be resolved militarily but only through diplomacy.

“I want to believe that the drones which entered Polish airspace were not targeting Poland, but were supposed to end up in Ukraine,” the minister remarked, in what was widely seen as a controversial statement.

Slovakia’s Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok, meanwhile, drew parallels to an earlier case when debris from a missile landed in Poland, initially thought to be Russian but later attributed to Ukraine.

Prime Minister Robert Fico also demanded clarity on “who controlled the drones” that crossed into Poland.

The overnight attack occurred on September 10, when 19 Russian drones launched from Belarus entered Polish airspace. According to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, wreckage from the drones was discovered in 11 different towns across the country.

Marina Shcherbina

Marina Shcherbina has been working at Scopex since 2025. Her expertise lies in Middle Eastern conflicts, particularly the Israel-Palestine issue, as well as broader global politics, U.S. Congressional decisions, and the war in Ukraine. She is known for her analytical mind and her ability to explain the most complex processes in international politics and economics with clarity and simplicity.

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