Some experts said the incident showed Poland and NATO have adapted to the realities of modern drone warfare, though it also left them asking what Russia might try next.
Others noted criticism that fighter jets and costly munitions were used against relatively cheap drones.
US President Donald Trump suggested the drones may have entered Poland by "mistake," but Polish leaders quickly rejected that idea.
“As always, it is an opportunity for Russia to provoke and create havoc," Robert Pszczel, a diplomat and former head of the NATO Information Office in Moscow, told Polish Radio's Danuta Isler.
“So I think the time has come to very seriously consider closing the border with the Russian Federation, because it’s a neighbor from hell," said Pszczel, who is now an expert at the Warsaw-based Center for Eastern Studies. "And it’s a neighbor that thinks it can carry out threats and provocations, like the one with the drones, without any reaction. That assumption needs to be corrected—through action."
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