Slovakia is attending eight other EU Member States at a meeting on the EU drone wall for the eastern border of the EU, said Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the European Commission, according to an article by Ukrainska Pravda. Of the Member States bordering Ukraine, only Hungary will be left out of the meeting.
On September 26, the European Union will host a meeting convened by Andrius Kubilius, Commissioner for Defense Affairs, the European Commission. This is due to the fact that at least 19 Russian drones flew into the airspace of Poland, after which the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated in an annual evaluation speech that a drone wall was needed to protect the eastern borders of the European Union.
A representative of Ukraine attends the meeting. Next to it is seven front -line states (Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria) and Denmark. Regnier could not comment on the exact agenda, but not only expects a “paper -like” meeting. “Strong commitment, concrete results” will be from the trial, he said. The drone wall will also be discussed with NATO partners.
At the beginning of September, nineteen Russian drones entered the airspace of Poland, and the Poles fired part of the Russian drones violating airspace. Since then, a Russian drone has also appeared in Romania. Recently, the airports of Oslo and Copenhagen had to be closed due to the appearance of drones. Drones, fighter jets, airspace violations: In this article, we wrote that Putin would raise the stake because he can.
It is not yet known how much it will be to build a drone wall of the European Union and how long it will take, but analysts say it can be solved within one year, Kubilius told Reuters. According to the EU Defense Commissioner, there is currently being discussed in the early phase, but he imagines several sensors, various weapons and disturbing equipment, which will be able to quickly detect and neutralize the arriving drones.
