European leaders call Russian drone incursion in Poland a ‘deliberate’ actEuropean leaders have expressed alarm over the Russian drone incursion into Poland.Prime minister Keir Starmer spoke about the incursion with French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday.Starmer’s office said that it “was clear that Russia was continuing to ramp up its aggression, systematically stepping up its attacks through a campaign of increasingly belligerent actions.”The German government said it will “extend and expand air policing over Poland”.Nato’s supreme commander in Europe, US General Alexus Grynkewich, said the alliance wasn’t certain about the number of drones that entered Polish territory, nor whether they were fired intentionally.”But we will learn lessons. We will learn of things that we need to enhance our posture, to handle these limited incursions,” Grynkewich said in Vilnius, Lithuania.The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania published a joint statement calling the incursion “a deliberate and coordinated strike constituting an unprecedented provocation and escalation of tension.”Finnish president Alexsander Stubb, who met with president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, said that now “the line between war and peace has been blurred” and that Wednesday’s events were another milestone following Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.”We now live in an age of uncertainty,” Stubb told a news conference with Zelensky.Territorial defence officers clean up debris from the destroyed roof of a house after Russian drones violated Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine in Wyryki near Lublin in Poland (AP)Arpan Rai12 September 2025 05:53Watch: Trump believes Russia’s drone incursion in Poland could have been ‘a mistake’Trump believes Russia’s drone incursion in Poland could have been ‘a mistake’Arpan Rai12 September 2025 05:26Russia says Ukrainian drones attacked training centre at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plantUkrainian drones attacked a training centre at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant yesterday, the Moscow-installed administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine said.There were no casualties and information on potential damage was being clarified, the plant administration said.The plant’s communications director, Yevgeniya Yashina, told the state news agency RIA that such attacks create “a direct risk of violating nuclear safety. The training centre is only 300 metres (1,000 feet) from the reactors and an attack on them could lead to irreparable consequences.”The plant’s Russian administration reported a similar incident last Saturday. It said Ukrainian drones hit the roof of the training centre but caused no major damage and no increase in radiation levels.Arpan Rai12 September 2025 05:25France to deploy three Rafale fighter jets to help protect Polish airspaceFrance will deploy three Rafale fighter jets to help Poland protect its airspace after this week’s drone incursions into its airspace, French president Emmanuel Macron said on X.“In connection with the incursion of Russian drones into Poland, I have made the decision to mobilise three Rafale fighter jets to support the protection of Polish airspace and Europe’s eastern flank together with our Nato allies,” Macron said. “The security of the European continent is our top priority. We will not give in to Russia’s increasing intimidation,” he said.Arpan Rai12 September 2025 04:56Poland says Putin’s drone incursion ‘wasn’t a mistake’Poland has rejected Donald Trump’s speculation that Russian drones breaching Polish airspace might have been “a mistake”.Talking to reporters yesterday, Trump said the incursion could have been unintentional while adding: “I’m not happy about anything to do with the whole situation.”Poland’s foreign minister shot back at him on X, and wrote: “No, that wasn’t a mistake”.The incursion into Poland, which came during unrelenting Russian strikes on neighbouring Ukraine, deepened longstanding fears that the three-year war between Poland’s neighbours could precipitate a wider conflict.US-led efforts to steer Moscow and Kyiv toward a peace settlement have so far failed to get traction.Arpan Rai12 September 2025 04:36NATO Articles 4 and 5 explained after Russian drones shot down over PolandRebecca Whittaker12 September 2025 04:00Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper to visit Kyiv as £142m aid boost announcedForeign secretary Yvette Cooper is due to travel to Kyiv today in her first overseas visit since being appointed in the role.The minister will be reaffirming Britain’s commitment to Ukraine with a £142m ($192.75m) winter support aid boost.Cooper is due to meet president Volodymyr Zelensky and senior Ukrainian officials, to whom she will reaffirm Britain’s commitment to Ukraine’s defence against Russian aggression, the government said.”Ukraine’s security is crucial to the UK’s security,” Cooper said in a statement.The extra funding package, part of a previously pledged aid programme launched in June, includes £100m in humanitarian assistance for frontline communities and £42m to repair and protect critical energy systems targeted by Russian strikes.Her visit comes amid heightened tensions following an incursion of Russian drones into Nato airspace in Poland.Defence secretary Yvette Cooper takes charge as new foreign secretary (PA Wire)Arpan Rai12 September 2025 03:58Ukrainian drones heading to Moscow downed, says mayorRussian anti-aircraft units destroyed or downed nine Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow today, the capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said.Sobyanin said specialist teams were examining fragments of the drones where they had hit the ground.The governor of Leningrad region, which surrounds Russia’s second largest city, St Petersburg, said anti-aircraft measures were in effect to counter drones.The measures were in effect for 100km (60 miles) around Pulkovo, St. Petersburg’s airport, he wrote on Telegram. He said the number of enemy drones at issue was being clarified.Arpan Rai12 September 2025 03:49Watch: Russian Black Sea Fleet ship hit by UkraineRussian Black Sea Fleet ship hit by UkraineRebecca Whittaker12 September 2025 03:00Watch: Trump pledges ‘vicious’ response in tribute to murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna ZarutskaTrump pledges ‘vicious’ response in tribute to murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna ZarutskaRebecca Whittaker12 September 2025 02:00
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Ukraine-Russia war live: Poland rejects Trump’s claim that Putin’s drone incursion ‘could’ve been a mistake’
