KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Poland’s defense chief traveled to Kyiv on Thursday in search of Ukrainian help in developing his country’s drone warfare capabilities, just over a week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace and exposed NATO’s vulnerability to drone warfare.
Drones used for defense and attack have taken a central battlefield role in the more than three years since Russia invaded Ukraine, transforming how wars are waged, and countries are keen to master the new and quickly developing battlefield technology.
“We will be signing an agreement concerning cooperation between the (defense) ministries, but also acquiring capabilities when it comes to operating drones,” Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said in comments published on the website of the Polish Ministry of