{"id":11986,"date":"2025-09-10T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/11986\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:52:09","slug":"russian-drones-in-polish-airspace-reckless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/11986\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian drones in Polish airspace ‘reckless’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has called Russia’s drone incursion into Poland’s airspace a “reckless and unprecedented act”.<\/p>\n

He said it served as a “stark reminder of the threat posed by Russia to Europe’s security”.<\/p>\n

Poland has said it scrambled aircraft alongside allies to shoot down “hostile objects” violating its airspace during a Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine, a first for a NATO country during the war.<\/p>\n

“Ireland stands in full solidarity with Poland and its right to take necessary steps to defend its sovereign territory,” added Mr Martin.<\/p>\n

“As the Government will discuss today, these events underline the need to strengthen our support for Ukraine as it continues to defend itself against Russia’s ongoing war of aggression.”<\/p>\n

T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris also said he is very concerned with the developments overnight <\/a>in relation to the “incursion of Polish, air space and territorial integrity by Russia”.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his way into Cabinet, Mr Harris said this must be a wake-up call for the West.<\/p>\n

He said there is a need to significantly increase the level of sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n

T\u00e1naiste concerned about ‘incursion of Polish airspace’<\/p>\n

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“We know sanctions have an effect, but we also know there are many more robust sanctions that could be taken,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We also know that if the United States would join in partnership with European allies, those sanctions could be much more impactful in terms of ensuring Putin brings an end.”<\/p>\n

Mr Harris said that US President Donald Trump has talked many times about considering sanctions and that the time for thinking about them is over.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mr Martin said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to suspend the EU’s trade agreement with Israel is a “very significant development”.<\/p>\n

Ms von der Leyen delivered her harshest criticism of Israel to date during her State of the Union address<\/a> in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n

Mr Martin said that Ireland has long called for this move as the situation in Gaza is “absolutely catastrophic without any moral justification”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has called Russia’s drone incursion into Poland’s airspace a “reckless and unprecedented act”. He said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-11986","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}