From 2h ago
15.55 BST
Nato
allies responding to Russian drone incursion seriously – snap analysis
Dan
Sabbagh
Defence
and security editor
UK’s John
Healey may have presided over an unexpectedly slimmed down meeting of E5
defence ministers in Woolwich today, with Poland’s Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
forced to fly back to Warsaw overnight and France’s Sébastien Lecornu promoted
to prime minister.
But
Healey demonstrated that Nato allies are responding to the Russian drone
incursion seriously with the promise that UK was looking at “options to bolster
Polish air defences”.
Though he
wouldn’t quite say that Russia had deliberately targeted Poland, the criticism
was strong: “They were dangerous, they were reckless, they breached sovereign
Polish and Nato airspace”.
Last
night’s response, involving Dutch F-35s scrambling to help their Polish
counterparts, demonstrated Nato’s effectiveness but it must be a concern to
western planners that only 3 or 4 out of 20 drones (even if they were not
armed) were shot down – a low proportion compared to what Ukraine typically
achieves.
6m ago
17.51 BST
Poland
got 'proposals for concrete support for air defence,' Tusk says after calls
with leaders
Polish
prime minister Donald Tusk said after his phone calls with European leaders
(16:26, 17:02) that he “received not only expressions of solidarity with
Poland, but above all, proposals for concrete support for the air defence of
our country.”
He didn’t
offer more details at this stage.
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