US State Department comments on Ukraine and Poland's proposal to shoot down Russian missiles

The US Department of State has suggested that the NATO summit in Washington could discuss the potential shooting down of Russian missiles flying towards Poland in Ukrainian skies.

The day before, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland would engage NATO allies in discussing the possible downing of Russian missiles and drones over the territory of Ukraine. Miller was asked about the US position on this idea. 

"I don’t have any changes when it comes to either U.S. policy or NATO policy to announce today, but obviously any time the – a NATO member wants to raise a policy, they have the ability to do so and discuss it with other heads of state.  

They’ll have a summit this week and I’m sure that is something that could be discussed if the – if he (Donald Tusk – ed.) would like to do so," US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said. 

On 8 July, Ukraine and Poland signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement.

Zelenskyy said that the agreement includes a provision to develop a mechanism to shoot down Russian missiles and drones launched in the direction of Poland within Ukrainian airspace.