Poland’s Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk announced that helicopters and fighter jets were deployed due to Russian unmanned aerial vehicles operating near the Polish border. “In connection with the operation of Russian unmanned aerial vehicles near the border of the Republic of Poland, the operational commander has decided to scramble helicopters and fighter jets. We are in constant contact with our allies,” Tomczyk wrote in X on Saturday. Russia previously stated that it did not want to escalate tensions with Poland after Warsaw and its allies accused Moscow of intentionally violating its airspace with drones. Following the incursion, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland was the closest it has come to an armed conflict since World War II.