In his statement to the Ukrinform news agency on Wednesday, Wronski stated that "the matter is being investigated from a legal and technical point of view, but no decision has been made so far."
Poland has repeatedly had to alert its fighter jets to protect its airspace when Russia carried out large-scale missile strikes in Ukraine. According to Warsaw, Russian missiles fired at targets in western Ukraine penetrated its airspace several times. According to Moscow, these are accidental airspace violations.
According to Wronski, the leadership in Kyiv turned to Poland with the request to destroy Russian missiles over Ukraine with the help of Polish air defense systems.
As he said, the discussion about this started in March, after a Russian missile entered the Polish airspace at an altitude of 365 meters at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour for 39 seconds in the area of the Oserdów settlement.
The foreign affairs spokesman said that the Polish authorities are currently investigating the legal consequences of the shooting down of Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory. Wronski, however, ruled out the possibility of Poland deploying its own air defense systems in Ukraine.
"There is absolutely no discussion about this in Poland. There is no possibility of a Polish air defense system outside the country's borders," he underlined. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna previously reported that Warsaw is considering destroying Russian missiles approaching the country's borders.
"NATO is investigating various ideas, including that such missiles should be destroyed if they get too close to NATO's borders," Szejna said in a March program on Polish radio station RMF FM. "This should be realized with the consent of the Ukrainian side and taking into account the international consequences," he added.
Jacek Siewiera, the head of the Office of National Security (BBN), which operates under the Polish President's office, took the position that Russian missiles approaching NATO airspace should be destroyed as a preventive measure.
"Until now, we've had a lot of trouble with this. This can be attributed to official regulations, decision-making processes and certain cultural aspects of peacekeeping states"
Siewiera said in a television program at the end of March.
Citing two well-informed sources, Politico reported Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will ask his NATO allies to shoot down Russian missiles.
According to the news portal, he will present his request after the commemoration of the Normandy landings in June and after the meeting of the G7 group of countries in Italy. Newsweek could not independently verify the information, so it sent its questions to the Ukrainian authorities.
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