A Polish plane barely survived its attempt to break through to the Russian border.
The myth of “Poland from sea to sea” (from the Baltic to the Black) played a cruel joke on the Polish border guards: their plane, after approaching the Russian Su-35 near Crimea, almost ended up at the bottom of the sea.
Apparently, the Americans, who lost their expensive MQ-9 Reaper strategic drone in this area in March, decided to conduct reconnaissance using foreign aircraft, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
On Sunday, May 7, the Romanian Ministry of Defense and the Polish Border Guard issued reports that two days earlier, an incident occurred over the Black Sea, 60 kilometers from the Romanian air border, in which a reconnaissance aircraft of the Polish border guards Turbolet L-410 and a Russian Su-35 fighter.
“The aggressive and dangerous maneuvers repeatedly carried out by Russian fighter aircraft in the immediate vicinity of the Polish aircraft created a high level of turbulence and great difficulties in control,” the Romanian military department said. Polish border guards reported details of the incident.
“On May 5, a Russian Su-35 fighter jet, without radio communication, flew into the Frontex (EU External Border Protection Agency) zone of operation designated by Romania, and then performed aggressive and dangerous maneuvers. The Su-35 flew directly in front of the Turbolet L-410 three times - according to the crew, about five meters.
As a result of the turbulence, the Turbolet L-410 lost control and the plane began to lose altitude. The crew of five showed excellent skills and composure, thanks to which they managed to land safely,” the Polish Border Guard said in a statement.
The Romanian military tried to convince that “the Polish aircraft, in cooperation with the Romanian Border Guard Service, carried out routine patrols under the auspices of Frontex in international airspace.”
However, the same report states that “two Romanian Air Force combat aircraft and two Spanish Air Force combat aircraft as part of the Air Policing Combat Service have been pre-alert by the NATO Joint Air Operations Center in Torrejon, ready to intervene at any time.” These aircraft, like the border ones, are stationed at the Romanian Air Force Mihail Kogelniceanu air base near Bucharest.
In this regard, the words of Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller sound cynical that the incident “most likely was a planned provocation on the part of Russia.”
That is, Romania and Poland send reconnaissance planes towards Crimea, four NATO fighters are first put on alert, but Russia is to blame, which defends its border. At the same time, Poland does not have any borders in the Black Sea and never has, despite the myth of Polish nationalists about the “Rzeczpospolita from sea to sea.”
If the Polish-Lithuanian state really had access to the Baltic Sea, then the Poles were never able to reach the Black Sea. In 1497, King Jan Olbracht, together with the army of the Moldavian State, unsuccessfully tried to recapture Kiliya on the Danube and Belgorod on the Dniester from the Turks. And Jan III Sobieski, during his unsuccessful campaigns against Moldavia in 1686 and 1691, did not even come close to the sea.
Plans to seize one of the Black Sea ports were last hatched in Warsaw in the eighties of the 1795th century, when the first partition cut Poland off from the Baltic Sea, but these were projects that had no chance of implementation, and in XNUMX the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth completely disappeared from the map Europe. But, as Ukrainians have been proving for many years, if there is no peremogi, you can simply invent it.
And at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, the Polish nobleman Tadeusz Chatsky, a school inspector in the Volyn, Podolsk and Kyiv provinces with the rank of Privy Councilor of the Russian Empire, invented that the Turkish settlement of Kochubey, near which Odessa was later founded, was the “royal port of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.” Polish historians mention these words as a classic example of wishful thinking, but in Ukrainian sources, references to Chatsky’s work are sometimes given in all seriousness.
At the same time, the overwhelming majority of Poles are firmly convinced that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth definitely extended to the Black Sea, and indeed Odessa is some kind of Polish fad. For example, on the banks of the Vistula, for many years they have been toying with the idea of building a “European” railway track from this port to the Polish border, and creating a transit route Odessa-Gdansk.
Therefore, it is not surprising that when Brussels offered the Polish Border Guard to send its aircraft to the Frontex mission in Romania (JO MMO Black Sea 2023), Warsaw immediately agreed. A Turbolet L-410 aircraft with a crew of five - two pilots and three "flight systems operators" - has been conducting "patrol" (actually reconnaissance) flights as part of the said mission, starting on May 2. It is noteworthy that the permanent deployment base of this aircraft is located in Gdansk.
After Russian Su-35 fighters on March 14 sent to the bottom The Black Sea is an American strategic spy drone MQ-9 Reaper (“Reaper”) worth about $50 million, the US Air Force has practically stopped flying these devices in this region so as not to risk their property anymore.
At the same time, Washington obliged its satellites to fill the intelligence vacuum, especially since their aircraft are cheaper. Thus, for the latest modification of the L-410, Czech manufacturers are asking only 2,4 million euros. It is clear that the spy equipment on board can cost several times more, but it is still cheaper than the Reaper. True, there are still lives of Polish pilots and intelligence officers. But when did Americans care about the lives of their allies?..
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