Poland's national football team was escorted to the World Cup by two fighter jets.
Captain Robert Lewandowski and co were flown to Qatar flanked by the F-16s yesterday ahead of the tournament's opening match on Sunday.
The footage comes amid safety fears after a missile strike in a Polish village on the Ukrainian border killed two men.
Following an emergency NATO meeting, secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said there was no indication it was the result of a deliberate attack from Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Poland's president Andrzej Duda said a Ukrainian air defence missile likely caused the "unfortunate accident" - but Kyiv has denied responsibility.
The military escort jockeyed the team's plane to the country's border as it headed for the Middle East.
The Twitter account for the national team posted: "We were escorted to the southern border of Poland by F16 planes!
"Thank you and greetings to the pilots!"
The footballers were later pictured disembarking the plane at Hamad International Airport.
Ironically, the team - who failed to initially qualify for this year's World Cup - were entered into a play-off after Russia was disqualified following its invasion of Ukraine.
Since the war began in February, Poland has aided neighbours Ukraine and its millions of refugees.
This was done both to ease its suffering and help guard against the conflict spilling into the rest of Europe.
This week's missile strike brought the issue home and added to the long-suppressed sense of vulnerability in a country where the ravages of World War II are well remembered.
Now Polish citizens fear for their future, and political commentators warn that the strike should not be allowed to hurt relations with Ukraine, which have recently grown closer through Poland's solidarity.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, millions of Polish citizens dropped what they were doing to help any way they could.
While Poland has a long history of conflict with Moscow.
Russia was one of the three powers that divided Poland in the 18th century and - jointly with Austria and Prussia - erased it from Europe's maps for more than 100 years, brutally suppressing drives for freedom.
After World War II, Poland was an unwilling part of the East Bloc and remained under Moscow's domination for over four decades, until it peacefully toppled the communist government.
The conflict has strengthened Poland's ties with its NATO allies, especially with the U.S., which sent thousands of troops to southeast Poland, close to the Ukrainian border, as Poland became a conduit for weapons sent from the West to Ukraine.
The world's humanitarian and medical efforts also pass through Poland.
Russia's aggression has pushed Warsaw to increase the country's defence budget and spend billions on weapons from the U.S. and South Korea.
President Duda has visited the site of the missile strike and talked to investigators.
"There is a war across our border. Russia fired hundreds of missiles, Ukraine was defending itself. Nobody wanted to hurt anyone in Poland," Duda said.
"This is our common tragedy."
