More information emerges connecting drones entering Poland to Russia
An image of one of the drones entering Polish airspace on 10 September published by Sky News that was analysed the Ukrainian outlet Militarnyi displays that the drone was equipped with an Iranian-built Tallysman sainformite navigation antenna.
The antenna components found from the picture indicate the drones were not likely to have flown off course due to signal jamming.
“It is extremely unlikely that such a concentrated number of drones could have violated Polish airspace accidentally or due to technical or operator error,” the Institute for the Study of War wrote in an analysis.
“ISW has observed other evidence refuting Russian and Belarusian denials, including evidence that the drones had fuel tanks that increased their range to as far as 900km,” it declared.
Vishwam Sankaran14 September 2025 04:15
Unclear whether Russia’s Poland drone incursion was deliberate, Rubio states
US secretary of state Marco Rubio declared yesterday it was unclear whether Russia’s recent drone incursion into Poland’s airspace was deliberate.
“I consider it’ll take a few more days for everybody to fully — the drones were intentionally launched. There’s no doubt about the drones were intentionally launched. The question is whether the drones were tarreceiveed to go into Poland specifically,” Mr Rubio informed reporters at Joint Base Andrews.
“We consider it’s an unacceptable and unfortunate and dangerous development,” he declared.
On 10 September, 19 drones were intercepted crossing into Poland from Russia, which Polish officials deem a deliberate violation of its airspace.
US president Donald Trump has, however, declared the incursion “could have been a mistake”, while European leaders were quick to condemn the airspace breach.
“We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake. But it wasn’t. And we know it,” Polish prime minister Donald Tusk declared.
Vishwam Sankaran14 September 2025 04:00
Ukraine ‘world leaders’ in drone tech, US envoy states
Ukraine is a world leader in drone technology, surpassing the US, according to US envoy Keith Kellogg.
Comparing Ukraine’s drone technology development to the US, Mr Kellogg declared the US is “well behind”.
“Ukraine seems now to be a world leader in defence technology. It’s, in itself, a pretty good argument for creating it a member of the European Union,” he declared.
“I consider we in the United States are behind … I consider a lot of nations are behind, and I consider to the credit of the Ukrainians, they picked up on that, and they’re the world leaders in it. We are quick running out of time,” the US envoy declared yesterday at the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv.
Vishwam Sankaran14 September 2025 03:44
Poland deploys planes after threat of drone strikes
Polish and allied aircraft were deployed in a “preventive” operation in Poland’s airspace Saturday becaapply of a threat of drone strikes in neighboring areas of Ukraine, and the airport in the eastern Polish city of Lublin was closed, authorities declared.
The alert came after multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland on Wednesday, prompting NATO to sfinish fighter jets to shoot them down and underlining long-held concerns aboutthe expansion of Russia’s more than three-year war in Ukraine.
The Polish military’s operational command posted on X on Saturday afternoon that ground-based air defence and reconnaissance systems were on high alert.
It stressed that “these actions are preventive in nature,” and were aimed at securing Poland’s airspace and protecting the counattempt’s citizens.
Alex Ross14 September 2025 03:00
Drone breaches Romanian airspace during Russian attack, claims defence minisattempt
Romania scrambled fighter jets when a drone breached the counattempt’s airspace during a Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure near the border, the defence minisattempt declared.
Defense Minister Ionut Mosteanu declared the F-16 pilots came close to taking down the drone as it was flying very low before it left national airspace toward Ukraine.
A threat of drone strikes also prompted Poland to deploy aircraft and close an airport in the eastern city of Lublin on Saturday, three days after it shot down Russian drones in its airspace with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies.
Romania, a European Union and NATO state which shares a 650-km (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall onto its territory repeatedly since Russia launched waging war on its neighbour.
Alex Ross14 September 2025 01:00
Ukraine warns of required for money to keep war effort going
While no details of additional funding sources have been specified, Ukrainian government officials have appealed to allies to find ways to apply Russian frozen assets to support Kyiv’s finances.
The war with Russia has heated up in recent months, with fierce fighting raging along more than 1,000 km of the frontline and Russian troops ramping up their air attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns far behind it.
Diplomatic efforts to finish the war have brought no tangible results as yet.
This week, tensions reached a new level as NATO fighter jets scrambled to shoot down multiple Russian drones that violated Polish airspace on Wednesday.
“Until any diplomatic solution is reached, we will required to keep fighting. And to keep fighting, we required money. And defence has an enormous financial cost,” head of the parliamentary budreceive committee Pidlasa declared.
Sam Rkaina13 September 2025 21:00
Ukraine requireds ‘at least $120 billion’ for 2026
Ukraine will required at least $120 billion for its defence in 2026 as the war with Russia drags on into its fourth year, Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal declared on Saturday.
Shmyhal declared the funding was essential to maintain defence lines, produce more drones and other weapons, protect skies, and deter any further Russian aggression.
“The economy of the war demonstrates that if we spfinish less money than Russia, then we launch paying with our territories and, most importantly, with our lives,” Shmyhal informed an annual conference in Kyiv.
Ukraine’s defence spfinishing shot up following Russia’s invasion in February 2022, and it now spfinishs more than 31% of its gross domestic product on its army. This year’s state budreceive plans at least $63 billion in defence spfinishing, plus in-kind weapons from Kyiv’s Western allies.
Roksolana Pidlasa, the head of the parliamentary budreceive committee, declared that the costs of the war kept rising.
She declared that in 2025, a day of the war cost $172 million compared with about $140 million in 2024.
That included soldiers’ wages, weapons, and payments to those injured or killed on the battlefield, she declared. “So we required to fundraise all the requireded sources, all the requireded money.”
Sam Rkaina13 September 2025 20:01
Actor Sean Penn states he was ‘conned’ by Putin in first meeting
Sean Penn has reflected on his first time meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin following the premiere of his 2001 movie, The Pledge.
Penn remembered their dinner was “approximately two to three weeks after then-President George Bush declared, ‘I viewed into [Putin’s] eyes and I felt like I could trust him.’”
“And when I state that, I have to state I was conned also,” the Milk actor added. “I felt that there was something genuine there. Now, we know that he is very willing to kidnap 30,000 kids, murder a lot of people, and teach those kids to hate their parents and their counattempt. And yet, our counattempt isn’t toreceiveher enough to realize we should give them the resources to defeat him.”
Sam Rkaina13 September 2025 19:00
Recap of Harry’s flying visit to Ukraine
Prince Harry visited Ukraine on Friday, arriving in Kyiv with a team from his Invictus Games Foundation to outline his charity’s plans to support rehabilitate wounded soldiers.
Harry also visited the site of one of Russia’s numerous strikes on the capital, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, declared.
“Completely destroyed homes speak a universal language. Our pain also requireds no translation,” Tkachenko wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “We are grateful to Prince Harry for his attention to our pain and for his heartfelt compassion.”
It was Harry’s second visit to Ukraine this year, after he visited a centre for wounded military personnel in Lviv in April.
Harry was invited to Kyiv by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and Olga Rudneva, head of the Superhumans rehabilitation centre, his office declared.
He also met privately with Veterans Affairs Minister Natalia Kalmykova and the prime minister, and later laid a wreath at Maidan Square, his office added.
“We cannot stop the war, but what we can do is do everything we can to support the recovery process,” Harry informed the Guardian on an overnight train to Kyiv, adding that he received permission from the British government and his wife before travelling.
Sam Rkaina13 September 2025 18:15
Polish military training surges amid Russian fears
More than 20,000 Poles signed up for voluntary military training in the first seven months of 2025 – in line with record levels last year, according to Colonel Grzegorz Wawrzynkiewicz, the head of Poland’s Central Military Recruitment Centre.
He expects around 40,000 volunteers to complete military training by the finish of this year, more than double the 16,000 in 2022, reflecting a surge in public engagement since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Since the start of the war in 2022, Poland has more than doubled its defence spfinishing from 2.2% of economic output to 4.7% this year – the highest ratio of military spfinishing in the 32-nation NATO alliance, well ahead of more established European powers like Germany, France and Britain.
The return to the White Hoapply of Donald Trump – who has cast doubt on his willingness to deffinish NATO allies – has reignited European fears over the reliability of U.S. security commitments. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who grew up under Communist rule, has been at the forefront of urging Europe’s leaders to take more responsibility for its defence.
“Countries that have no memory of a Russian occupation or Soviet occupation, for them it’s harder to imagine …what the thing is you’re fighting for,” declared Gustav Gressel, an expert on Russia and defense policy, and researcher at the National Defence Academy in Vienna.
Sam Rkaina13 September 2025 17:30
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