Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has urged NATO to take growing “provocations” from Russia more seriously after a senior Moscow official warned the “peaceful sleep of EU citizens” was over amid a series of drone incidents on the alliance’s eastern flank.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful Security Council, warned European leaders on Friday that drone incidents would “continue to happen” after a Russian drone crashed into an apartment block in Romania during an attack on neighboring Ukraine.
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“Let them get ready: this will continue to happen,” Medvedev said in a statement. “There is a war going on! And the citizens of EU states, as the population of the belligerent countries, will not be able to sleep peacefully,” he added.
Medvedev, a former Russian president, accused European governments of participating in the war against Ukraine by supplying Kyiv with drones, weapons and intelligence.
‘More and more provocations’
Tusk responded on Saturday, urging NATO to respond more urgently to what he described as Russia’s growing provocations along the alliance’s eastern flank and its increasingly hostile rhetoric.
“Poland, Baltic states, now Romania. More and more Russian provocations,” Tusk wrote on X.
“Yesterday, the former [Russian] president Dmitry Medvedev said that the peaceful sleep of EU citizens is over. Everyone in NATO should finally start taking these facts and words seriously,” he added.
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