“The Czech President recalled that Turkey had already knocked down a Russian plane when he had broken its airspace.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
The Czech President recalled that Turkey had already knocked down a Russian plane when he had broken its airspace.
Czech President Peter Pavel / Collage UNIAN, video footageNATO has to respond rigidly to Russian provocations similar to yesterday’s fighter ravine in Estonia’s airspace. In particular, in such situations, it is possible to knock down Russian planes. This was stated on the air of Czech television President Peter Paul, quoted by Echo24.
“I have to call it extremely irresponsible behavior, because the violation of airspace is a reason to activate protective mechanisms and, therefore, the beating of such an aircraft. And this is neither from our part nor from Russian,” Pavel said.
The Czech President recalled that Turkey resulted in a strict reaction to Russian provocations, knocking down the Russian Su-24 bomber in November 2015 during the war in Syria.
Pavel noted that at the time of his work as the head of the NATO Military Committee, he somehow asked the Russians, why they constantly arrange such provocations. The Russians replied to him, “Because we can.”
“They test our sustainability, our determination to defend ourselves. I think that we must be extremely firm in the fact that if there is a violation of the rules, we have to respond adequately to them, including the military way.
According to Echo24, Peter Paul is not the only one in the Czech Republic who wants to see a more decisive NATO response to Russian provocations. The former Minister of Finance of the country Miroslav Kalousek also expressed a similar opinion the day before.
“I would very much like to have a clear message from the Kremlin under Article 4:” Next time in the airspace of any of our countries we will shoot immediately and without warning. “I do not believe that the Russians are able to understand a different point of view,” Kalosek wrote on the social network X.
Russian provocation in EstoniaAs UNIAN wrote, in recent weeks, Russia has begun to provoke NATO brazenly. The latest episode happened yesterday, when three Russian fighter fighters invaded Estonia’s airspace, spending 12 minutes a total of 12 minutes.
Estonia then appealed to NATO allies, activating Article 4. It provides for mandatory consultations between the Allies, but does not provide for a direct military response.
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