{"id":163843,"date":"2025-09-10T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-russian-drone-alert-in-poland-before-belarus-border-closure-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:03:02","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-russian-drone-alert-in-poland-before-belarus-border-closure-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-russian-drone-alert-in-poland-before-belarus-border-closure-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Russian drone alert in Poland before Belarus border closure – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warplanes scrambled after warning from Ukraine; Poland to seal border over Russian and Belarus\u2019s \u2018very aggressive\u2019 Zapad war games. What we know on day 1,295
Russian drones have been shot down after entering Nato-member Poland\u2019s airspace<\/strong>. Poland\u2019s armed forces operation command said: \u201cDuring today\u2019s attack by the Russian Federation carrying out strikes on targets located in the territory of Ukraine, our airspace was repeatedly violated by drone-type objects<\/strong> \u2026 We emphasise that the military operation is ongoing, and we urge people to stay at home. The most threatened areas are the Podlaskie, Mazowieckie, and Lubelskie voivodeships<\/em> [provinces].\u201d
Ukraine had earlier warned about the drones, prompting Poland to scramble its own and Nato warplanes, place air defences and radar on high alert, and temporarily close some airports.<\/strong> A Polish defence minister, Cezary Tomczyk, said \u201can operation to neutralise objects that have violated and exceeded the border of the Republic of Poland<\/a> is under way\u201d.
It came after the Polish prime minister announced Poland will close its border with Belarus on Thursday as a result of the \u201cvery aggressive\u201d Zapad military exercises being conducted by Belarus and Russia. <\/strong>Donald Tusk said it was also a response to a growing number of provocations from Russia and Belarus. Separately, Poland\u2019s president, Karol Nawrocki, warned that \u201cwe do not trust Vladimir Putin\u2019s good intentions\u201d.<\/strong> Nawrocki continued: \u201cWhile waiting, of course, for a long-term peace, permanent peace, which is necessary to our regions, we believe that Vladimir Putin is ready to also invade other countries<\/strong>.\u201d
The US Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal challenged Congress and Donald Trump to adopt a bipartisan bill imposing \u201cscorching\u201d secondary sanctions<\/strong> on countries buying Russian oil like China, India and Brazil. The long-proposed bill is co-sponsored by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator. \u201cI believe the president should be supportive,\u201d Blumenthal told NPR<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cThe time has come for action. The president\u2019s been mocked and played by Putin,<\/strong> and I think the president ought to be furious that Putin has stalled and stonewalled in this way. And about this bill, there are 85 co-sponsors, evenly divided \u2013 Democrat and Republican \u2013 which I think shows the level of support in the Congress for these kinds of sanctions.\u201d
Trump said on Sunday he was ready to impose further sanctions targeting Russia<\/a>, but appears now to be stipulating that the EU must do so at the same time. The EU has already enacted 18 rounds of sanctions and is preparing a 19th round<\/strong>, which it has said should include more secondary sanctions targeting countries helping Moscow. A US official told Agence France-Presse that on Tuesday Trump raised with European representatives the possibility of tariffs of between 50% and 100% on Russian oil customers.
Officials also discussed the issue of immobilised Russian government money<\/strong> as the EU sanctions envoy, David O\u2019Sullivan, led a delegation to Washington. Trump dialled in for discussions on Tuesday alongside Ukraine\u2019s prime minister, a US official said. Also involved in talks were Trump\u2019s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and officials from the US trade representative\u2019s office and state department.
A Russian strike killed 24 elderly people collecting their pensions<\/strong> on Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said. \u201cA brutally savage Russian airstrike with an aerial bomb on the rural settlement of Yarova in the Donetsk region,\u201d said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. \u201cDirectly on people. Ordinary civilians. At the very moment when pensions were being disbursed.\u201d Prosecutors announced a war crime investigation. The Ukrainian military said the Russians had dropped a glide bomb \u2013 a heavy bomb fitted with wings so it can fly rather than falling straight down. There was no immediate comment from Moscow or the Kremlin.
Ukraine\u2019s air defences were responding to a Russian drone attack on Kyiv<\/strong> early on Wednesday, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital posted online.
Members of the European parliament in Strasbourg have accidentally passed a motion criticising the EU for a failed \u201cmilitaristic strategy\u201d in Ukraine<\/strong>. The amendment from an MEP from Germany\u2019s radical left was nodded through by party floor chiefs who later admitted making a mistake<\/strong> \u2013 delighting populist groupings like Italy\u2019s Putin-friendly Five Star Movement.<\/p>\n

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Warplanes scrambled after warning from Ukraine; Poland to seal border over Russian and Belarus\u2019s \u2018very aggressive\u2019 Zapad war games. What we know on day 1,295Russian drones have been shot down after entering Nato-member Poland\u2019s airspace. Poland\u2019s armed forces operation command said: \u201cDuring today\u2019s attack by the Russian Federation carrying out strikes on targets located in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}