Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta says the Western Military Alliance is assessing today's incident in Poland. Nearly 20 large Russian attack drones flew into Polish airspace. Polish and NATO warplanes shot down some of them. Poland has asked to invoke Article 4 of the NATO Treaty, a meeting where the

Allies review a potential threat. And Pierre's Rob Schmitz has more on today's incursion.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says fighter jets from both NATO and Poland were scrambled to

shoot down the Russian drones and had entered Polish airspace overnight. The operation marks

the first time that a NATO country has directly engaged Russian assets in its airspace overnight. The operation marks the first time that a NATO country

has directly engaged Russian assets in its airspace since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in

2022. Tews called the incursion a large-scale provocation by Russia. On Tuesday, Poland said it would

close its borders with Belarus due to what it called aggressive military exercises,

as well as a growing number of provocations from Russia and Belarus.

In 2022, a stray Ukrainian missile struck a Polish village killing two people.

Rob Schmitz and Pierre News, Berlin.

A top Russian diplomat in Poland says accusations that Russia launched drones into Poland is groundless.

He says Polish authorities have provided no evidence the drones or even Russian.

He also says Russia has no interest in escalating anything with Poland.

South Korea has chartered a flight to bring back more than 300 South Korean workers

detained at a battery plant in Georgia last week. And Pierre's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul.

South Korea's foreign ministry says it aims to bring the workers home as quickly as possible,

but adds that unspecified delays mean that chartered flight might not be able to immediately return to South Korea.

One area of disagreement is that South Korea wants its workers to be able to leave voluntarily

so that they can return to the United States at some point,

while the Trump administration wants them to be deported, which could prevent them from coming back.

South Korea's foreign minister,

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