{"id":374265,"date":"2026-01-17T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:40:07","slug":"ukraine-war-latest-uk-position-of-destructive-nature-says-russia-but-moscow-hails-step-forward-in-europe-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374265\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war latest: UK position &#8216;of destructive nature&#8217;, says Russia &#8211; but Moscow hails &#8216;step forward&#8217; in Europe | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/author\/mollie-malone-1054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mollie Malone<\/a>, home news correspondent<\/p>\n<p>The UK wants to learn from Ukraine&#8217;s wartime experience to tackle the threat of drones carrying weapons and drugs into British prisons, Sky News understands.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy prime minister, David Lammy, has been in Ukraine to see how anti-drone measures used against Russian forces can be applied to UK prisons, as part of a trip to mark a 100-year security partnership between the two nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve tasked British prisons with learning from Ukraine&#8217;s drone expertise. We know prison drones pose a direct threat to national security and that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re acting decisively to tackle these gangs by investing millions in security and cutting-edge technology,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were 1,712 drone incidents in prisons across England and Wales between April 2024 and March 2025, a 43% rise on the previous 12 months, and a new peak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, drone incidents over prisons are up 1,140%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the Autumn, Sky News witnessed drones delivering packages of drugs into HMP Wandsworth, a Category B men&#8217;s prison in south London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Experts have previously warned that larger drones used in agriculture and capable of lifting 80kg could in the future be used to lift inmates out of jails.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK has provided assistance to help bolster Ukraine&#8217;s supply of drones, giving \u00a3350m in 2025, from a target of 10,000 in 2024 to 100,000 by the end of December last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ministers say they&#8217;ve secured \u00a36.5m of investment money from UK research and innovation to help speed up drone research and developments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A package of \u00a340m had previously been announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The money will be used to invest in new technology to allow prison staff to better detect and bring down drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mollie Malone, home news correspondent The UK wants to learn from Ukraine&#8217;s wartime experience to tackle the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-374265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}