Military expert assesses risk of collision between Polish and Russian military aircraft 18:30

Military blogger Alexey Zhivov on Radio 1 commented It was reported that Poland once again mobilized its fighter jets due to “increased activity of Russian long-range aviation.” According to him, Ukraine’s western neighbors do not pose a threat to Russian aircraft.

“Poland is training fighter jets for missile defense. <...> “Aircraft are one of the means of air defense – air defense, which is carried out, among other things, using its own aviation. If they have a hypothetical threat that some kind of missile will fly into the area, they scramble the aircraft to intercept it,” the expert explained.

Zhivov added that there was no need for Russian planes to fly to the Polish border because the range of the missiles they fired reached 5,000 kilometers.

On July 8, Poland and its allies lifted into the air Warsaw claimed that the aircraft was due to the observed long-range aviation activity of the Russian Federation.

A similar measure applied Polish Armed Forces on June 22. After this, the Republican army declared a “very busy night”.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation regularly reports that flights of Russian military aircraft are carried out in full compliance with international rules for the use of airspace.

Previously in Poland is called a condition Transfer of MiG fighters to Ukraine.

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Source: Gazeta

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