{"id":137996,"date":"2025-09-12T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137996\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:41:10","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-wasnt-a-mistake-polands-reply-after-trump-speculates-on-drones-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137996\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: \u2018Wasn\u2019t a mistake\u2019 \u2013 Poland\u2019s reply after Trump speculates on drones | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt could have been a mistake,\u201d Donald Trump offered when asked on Thursday about the mass Russian drone violation of Polish airspace. Poland\u2019s foreign affairs minister posted in reply: \u201cNo, that wasn\u2019t a mistake.\u201d An emergency session of the UN security council will convene on Friday at Poland\u2019s request as Warsaw seeks to rally support after the Russian drone incursion, write Shaun Walker and Jakub Krupa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Britain should work with European Nato allies in developing an integrated air and missile defence system, according to two authors of the UK strategic defence review. \u201cEuropeans are going to have to realise they will have to do this themselves,\u201d said Fiona Hill, a former White House adviser, who said Russia was \u201ctesting the limits\u201d of Europe\u2019s defences at a time when the military commitment of the US to Nato was uncertain. Dan Sabbagh writes<\/a> that Hill\u2019s co-author, Gen Sir Richard Barrons, said it was necessary to \u201cstep up quite quickly to improve medium- to low-level air defence\u201d.<\/p>\n

Having just launched drones into Polish airspace, Russia on Thursday demanded that Poland reopen its shared border with Belarus where the Russians are conducting military exercises. The Kremlin alluded to \u201cconsequences\u201d otherwise. Poland\u2019s PM, Donald Tusk, announced the closure on Tuesday because of the \u201cvery aggressive\u201d Zapad military exercises being conducted by Belarus and Russia as well as a growing number of provocations from the dictatorial allies.<\/p>\n

Germany said it would \u201cextend and expand\u201d its participation in Nato\u2019s air policing programme, to provide more cover to Polish airspace \u2013 doubling its contribution of Eurofighter jets to four, and extending their mission by three months to the end of the year. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said France would \u201cdeploy three Rafale fighter jets to contribute to the protection of Polish airspace and of Nato\u2019s eastern flank together with our allies\u201d. The Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Sweden each summoned their Russian ambassadors to protest about the drone incident.<\/p>\n

The British foreign minister, Yvette Cooper, is due to travel to Kyiv on Friday in her first overseas visit since being appointed in the role, reaffirming Britain\u2019s commitment to Ukraine with a \u00a3142m ($193m) winter support aid boost. Cooper is due to meet Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and senior Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n

Russia claimed on Thursday that Ukrainian drones attacked a training centre at the illegally Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Reuters could not independently verify the report. Each side regularly accuses the other of shelling or other actions that could trigger a nuclear accident.<\/p>\n

Thousands gathered at the Slovak capital, Bratislava, on Thursday, in part to protest about last week\u2019s meeting between their pro-Putin prime minister, Robert Fico, and the Russian president in Beijing. Fico has not visited Kyiv or anywhere in Ukraine hit by the war, but has repeatedly called for \u201cnormalising\u201d relations with Russia.<\/p>\n

New Zealand said it was lowering its price cap on Russian crude oil to $47.60 a barrel from $60. It brings New Zealand policy in line with Canada, Britain and the EU and is a \u201ccalculated step to curtail crucial oil revenues fuelling Putin\u2019s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine\u201d, said Wellington\u2019s foreign minister, Winston Peters. New Zealand also released new sanctions against Russia targeting 19 individuals and entities and 19 ships. \u201cWe\u2019re sanctioning actors involved in chemical weapons and disinformation, as well as shadow fleet vessels, alternative payment providers, and third-country facilitators in North Korea and Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt could have been a mistake,\u201d Donald Trump offered when asked on Thursday about the mass Russian drone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-137996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}