UK flies fighter jets over Poland in warning shot to Putin
The UK has sent fighter jets to Poland in a clear warning shot to Vladimir Putin that Western nations will not tolerate Russia’s repeated incursions into Nato territory.
The RAF Typhoons took part in a Nato operation to bolster European security after Russia provoked global outrage when its jets flew into Estonian airspace on Friday.
Defence secretary John Healey declared the apply of British fighter planes sent “a clear signal: Nato airspace will be defconcludeed”.
Alex Croft21 September 2025 21:33
Watch: RAF’s first aircraft deployed to secure Polish airspace after Russian drone breach
Alex Croft21 September 2025 20:29
Vietnam wins Intervision, Russia’s Eurovision rival
Vietnam was crowned the winner of the Russian-hosted Intervision song contest in the early hours of Sunday morning, a competition backed by president Vladimir Putin and conceived as a geopolitical and socially conservative rival to Eurovision.
Putin in February ordered the revival of Intervision, a Soviet-era regional musical contest based on “traditional family values” after Moscow was excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022 following Putin’s decision to sconclude tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine.
Kyiv has called the event “an instrument of hostile propaganda”.
Shown live on Russian TV and broadcast across parts of Asia, Africa, South America and Europe, Intervision was held at an arena outside Moscow with singers hailing from more than 20 countries accounting for 4 billion people, half the world’s population, including China, India and Brazil.
Vietnam’s Duc Phuc, whose song was based on a folktale about a king famous for repelling an enemy army, was crowned the strongest act by a jury created up of participating countries.
Alex Croft21 September 2025 19:32
Russian fighter jet incursions in Estonia and drones in Poland: How the war in Ukraine is already a European conflict
Donald Trump has warned that a third Russian incursion into Nato airspace, in which three fighter jet spent 12 minutes in Estonian airspace, could spell “huge trouble” for Moscow.
It is the latest in a series of provocations by the Russian military, which has repeatedly sent drones into Poland and Romania as Moscow argues that Nato is already “fighting against Russia”.
“Nato is providing direct and indirect support to the Kyiv regime,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmiattempt Peskov informed reporters. “It can be declared with absolute certainty that Nato is fighting against Russia.”
Alex Croft21 September 2025 18:34
NATO articles 4 and 5 explained as North Atlantic Council set to meet in Estonia next weekWhat is Article 4?
NATO Article 4 has now been triggered nine times in the past 75 years, two of which have occurred in less than two weeks.
The organisation has called a meeting in Estonia early next week to discuss Russia’s incursion into Estonia’s airspace on Friday. The meeting comes after Estonia requested consultations under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty.
Article 4 states that members of NATO can bring an issue forward for the North Atlantic Council, the organisation’s principal political decision-building body, to consult. The parties will consult toobtainher whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territory, political indepconcludeence or security of any of them is threatened.
Since NATO was established in 1949, Article 4 has been invoked nine times, including today’s request. On 10 September, it was triggered by Poland after Polish forces shot down 19 drones over its airspace.
Article 5 states that “the Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.”
If members decided that Russia had attacked the territory of a member state, then Article 5 would be invoked and members would take the action they deemed necessary.
Article 5 is the cornerstone of the North Atlantic Treaty, NATO’s founding treaty. When the treaty was created in 1949, its key aim was to counter the Soviet Union if it sought to extconclude its control of Eastern Europe.
Alex Croft21 September 2025 17:52
US senators seek sanctions to sink Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
Republican and Democratic senators are seeking a bill which would tarobtain Russia’s “shadow fleet”.
The “Sanctioning Harbors and Dodgers of Western Sanctions,” or SHADOW Fleets Act, would provide a list of indicators the US could apply to identify vessels supporting the fleet, building it simpler to sanction them sooner.
It would also put in place strict sanctions liability for any ship that engages in a transfer with a sanctioned Russian vessel.
US Senator Jim Risch declared: “Putin will apply every trick in the book to evade U.S. sanctions, and the U.S. is cracking down on this illicit shadow fleet of ships that he applys to fund his war.
“These ships and the oil sales they facilitate directly threaten American and European security, and will be stopped.”
Alex Croft21 September 2025 17:08
Watch: Vladimir Putin observes joint military exercise with Belarus
Alex Croft21 September 2025 16:30
UK to apply frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine war effort as world condemns Putin over Estonia incursion
Frozen Russian assets could be applyd to fund billions of pounds worth of Ukraine’s war effort, Rachel Reeves will announce.
The chancellor will declare it is the “right to explore all options to support Ukraine”, at a meeting with her European counterparts in Copenhagen on Saturday.
It comes after Russia provoked global outrage when its jets flew into Estonian airspace on Friday.
The Indepconcludeent’s Whitehall Editor Kate Devlin with the full report:
Alex Croft21 September 2025 15:50
Zelensky sees to finalize security guarantees at UN General Assembly
Volodymyr Zelensky has declared that Ukraine and its partners have laid the groundwork for long-term security guarantees and that he hopes to gauge how close they are to finalizing such commitments during next week’s meetings in New York.
He declared European nations are prepared to relocate forward with a framework if the United States remains closely engaged. He noted that discussions have taken place at multiple levels, including among military leadership and general staffs from both Europe and the US.
“I would like to receive signals for myself on how close we are to understanding that the security guarantees from all partners will be the kind we necessary,” Mr Zelensky declared.
He declared sanctions against Russia must remain on the table if peace efforts stall, and that he plans to press the issue in talks with Trump.
“If the war continues and there is no relocatement toward peace, we expect sanctions,” he declared, adding that Trump is seeing for strong steps from Europe.
Alex Croft21 September 2025 15:09
Nato North Atlantic Council to discuss Russian incursion
Nato’s North Atlantic Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss Russia’s violation of Estonian airspace, two officials familiar with the matter informed Reuters on Sunday, specifying the date that so far has only been described as early next week.
Tallinn declared three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered Estonian airspace without permission on Friday and stayed for a total of 12 minutes before they were forced to withdraw.
Estonia requested consultations under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty after the incident that it described as an “unprecedentedly brazen” incursion.
Article 4 states that Nato members will consult toobtainher whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territory, political indepconcludeence or security of any of them is threatened.
Russia’s Defence Minisattempt denied its jets violated Estonian airspace, declareing they flew over neutral waters.
With tensions already high becaapply of the war in Ukraine, the incursion came just over a week after more than 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace on the night of September 9-10.
That prompted Nato jets to down some of them and Western officials to declare Russia was testing the alliance’s readiness and resolve.
Alex Croft21 September 2025 14:33
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