Poland fears “difficult” months with Russian attacks near the border

“Tevery night and day we have to make our planes take off repeatedly,” said Tusk before a meeting of the Council of Ministers, quoted by the state agency PAP.

Tusk needed Russian attacks to “become constant” near the Polish border, “in particular against border crossing points and near border infrastructure”.

He said that Russia’s behaviour, which he considered “more and more aggressive”, was affecting the region.

The warning is in line with what other countries have been denouncing about an increase in Moscow’s hybrid war actions to destabilise that European region.

Tusk reaffirmed that Poland’s special authorities and services are “very focused on ensuring that nothing bad happens” in Polish territory.

The Polish Prime Minister referred to air alerts motivated by a possible Russian threat, including that of Monday in Lublin Province, while a Russian bombing was taking place on Ukraine.

Although there was no breach of airspace, a drone crashed near a checkpoint across the border.

The Russian apparatus fell about two kilometres from the Yahidin border crossing point near Dorohusk, a bordering town with Ukraine.

The Polish air force mobilized two planes, which eventually returned to the bases without any need to intervene.

Poland is the main channel for aid in arms to Ukraine, a country facing a Russian invasion since February 2022.

Warsaw attributed to Russia several incidents and sabotages, such as what affected the Polish railway line used to transport aid to Ukraine at the end of 2025.

At the time, Tusk referred to incidents as “state terrorism”.

In June, Latvia warned of the possibility for Russia to carry out hybrid war actions against the Baltic countries and Poland, of which other countries, such as Germany, have also complained.

The three Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, are both members of the European Union and NATO, like Poland.

Estonia and Latvia share borders with Russia, while Lithuania has the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad as its neighbour in the south.