On Wednesday, September 10, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that his country had invoked NATO’s Article 4 for urgent talks after Russian drones violated its airspace. Tusk told the Sejm
The allied consultations I am referring to have now taken the form of a formal request to invoke Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
Article 4 states: “Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.” Unlike Article 5’s collective defense clause, NATO’s Article 4 does not trigger military action. Instead, it obliges allies to hold formal discussions whenever a member state considers its territorial integrity or security to be under threat.
On Wednesday, September 10th, Russian state media reported that Poland summoned Russia’s top envoy in the country, after Warsaw said it had downed several Russian drones that violated its airspace overnight.
Andrei Ordash, Russia’s temporary chargé d’affaires in Poland, confirmed to the state news agency RIA Novosti that he had been summoned to the foreign ministry. He added, however, that Polish officials had yet to provide evidence proving that the captured drones originated from Russia.
