© EPA/FABIO CIMAGLIA He should be in Kyiv soon.
US President's Special Representative for Ukraine Keith Kellogg was heading to Poland on the night of September 10, just as Russian drones attacked the territory of a NATO member state.
This was reported by CNN, citing a source familiar with the course of the trip.
The general is expected to continue his visit and arrive in Ukraine in the coming days.
As a reminder, Poland has used weapons for the first time to destroy Russian drones that crossed its border. Some of the UAVs were intercepted by Polish military forces with the support of allies. To ensure security, several airports were temporarily suspended, including in Warsaw, Rzeszow, and Lublin.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that a total of about 19 drones were detected, and for the first time some of them had flown from Belarus. At least one residential building was damaged in the attack. After the incident, the Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d'affaires for Russia, Andrzej Ordas.
An accelerated call-up of territorial defense reservists was also announced in the provinces of Poland. After Poland submitted an official request, NATO activated Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which provides for consultations of allies in the event of a threat to the security of any member state. At the same time, as Reuters writes, NATO does not consider the incursion of Russian drones into Poland as an attack.
According to media reports, in the Masovian Voivodeship, a Russian drone fell on the territory of a military unit of the Territorial Defense Forces several dozen kilometers from Warsaw.
Meanwhile, former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis warned that the Russian drone attack on Poland could become an argument for certain states to limit aid to Ukraine.
