Valensa: I would knock down a Russian aircraft

Ex-President of Poland Lech Valens, commenting on the provocation of Russian Su-24 against the American destroyer Donald Cook, committed in April in the Baltic, noted that Russian planes would have shot down on the site of the captain of the American ship. Valence made such a statement in an interview with Radio Liberty.

“I wouldn’t kill,” the former president of Poland remarked. “I would shoot on the wings.”

The interviewer suggested that such actions would lead to a conflict. Valens, however, this assumption was shaved. “No conflict,” he said. “What conflict? Nobody wants him, and the Russians do not want him.”

“Russia cannot afford a conflict: it is terribly expensive,” Valensa explained. The politician emphasized his goals, Moscow wants to achieve "intimidation and blackmail."

On the night of April 13, Russian Su-24 bombers flew twice on a shaving flight over the deck of the American destroyer Donald Cook, which was in the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. The planes were not equipped with weapons, but they performed maneuvers reminiscent of an air attack on the ship.

In early May, the most probable US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump said that it is necessary to knock down Russian military aircraft if they make dangerous maneuvers near the American. The current president of Barack Obama, continued Trump, should have called Vladimir Putin and say: "Listen, do us a favor - do not do this, take this maniac, just stop it." “And if this does not work,” the politician remarked, “and this goat will come to you - you must shoot.”