{"id":182397,"date":"2025-12-09T05:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182397\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:51:07","slug":"ksenia-samotiy-ireland-needs-to-invest-in-anti-drone-systems-at-airports-critical-infrastructure-on-land-and-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182397\/","title":{"rendered":"Ksenia Samotiy: Ireland needs to invest in anti-drone systems at airports,\u00a0critical infrastructure, on land and at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ireland may be neutral, but Russia showed during Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s visit to Dublin that it is willing to infringe on other countries\u2019 borders and neutrality status with acts of \u2018hybrid warfare\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska with President Catherine Connolly. Photo: Tony Maxwell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afcc601c-9ab6-49a0-b909-ac017f0478cd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska with President Catherine Connolly. Photo: Tony Maxwell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last week, the war in Ukraine briefly came close to Irish airspace. Not with missiles or fighter jets, but with a cluster of military-style drones that slipped into a no-fly zone over the Irish Sea and headed straight for the flight path of president Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s plane as it approached Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">His aircraft landed slightly ahead of schedule; the drones arrived on time for an interception that never happened, then drifted off to circle the Irish naval ship L\u00c9 William Butler Yeats below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland may be neutral, but Russia showed during Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s visit to Dublin that it is willing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17979,615,11900,2244,61,60,99023,17075,5151,43,3589,2040,16586],"class_list":{"0":"post-182397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-dublin-airport","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-ksenia-samotiy","15":"tag-nato","16":"tag-netherlands","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182397","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=182397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}