Polish President Karol Nawrocki is due in Berlin for talks on Tuesday, with his past criticism of Germany looming over Warsaw’s diplomatic drive to bolster allied support after a Russian drone incursion.

Poland is seeking greater military and political backing after its army, together with its NATO allies, scrambled jets to down Russian drones violating its airspace early on Wednesday.

While Russia denied targeting its eastern European neighbour, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned his country was closer to “open conflict” than at any point since World War II in the wake of the intrusion.

Nawrocki — a right-wing nationalist who has often locked horns with Tusk — is to meet German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday before travelling to Paris.

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