The Polish government spokesman announced, “raising the level of the readiness of all military units,” after two Russian missiles in the Polish village of Brazyudov near the Ukrainian border.
The spokesman added that Poland is considering a request to activate Article 4 of the NATO agreement “NATO” to discuss its security situation.
The German newspaper Bild quoted the Associated Press news that two Russian missiles struck the Polish village of Barziu, today, Tuesday, near the border with Ukraine, which resulted in the death of two people.
A senior military expert told the German newspaper that NATO must have already launched Article 4.
But what does the NATO activation of this substance mean?
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland of NATO members of NATO applied to the alliance’s member states to launch Article 4.
Article 4 of the NATO Charter states that any member of the alliance can request consultation with all allies, when he feels a threat about the unity of his soil, his political independence or security.
And activating the item means conducting emergency consultations between the four countries, if one of them is threatened. According to the organization’s website, the internal consultations that take place under the fourth item may lead to a procedure at the level of the thirtieth members, according to Euronews.
These countries are part of the “eastern wing” of the alliance alongside Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
Since 1949, the year that witnessed the establishment of the alliance, the aforementioned item has been activated 6 times, the last of which was in 2020 by Turkey, after forces loyal to the Syrian regime killed dozens of Turkish soldiers in northeastern Syria.
The fourth item differs from the fifth item, which indicates that the attack on any NATO member is an attack on all members of the alliance.
The fifth article of the NATO agreement signed in 1949 represents the primary item of the treaty, and stating: “The two parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America must be considered an attack against all members . . . “, While this commitment to collective defense lies at the heart of NATO, it is up to the estimate of each member state to decide exactly how it will contribute.
On September 12, 2001, a day after the attack on the World Trade Center, NATO was based on Article 5 for the first time in its history, as it obligated its members to stand by the United States in its response to the attacks.
Roussevi denied the opposite, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the “allegations” of the Polish media about Russian missiles in Poland were “provocation aimed at escalating the situation.
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The ministry added in a statement, “We have not launched any strikes on targets close to the Ukrainian -Polish border,” noting that “the wreckage that was found at the scene of the accident has nothing to do with Russian weapons. “.
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