{"id":420438,"date":"2025-09-13T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420438\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:39:09","slug":"new-nato-mission-to-bolster-eastern-flank-after-russia-drone-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420438\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nato mission to bolster eastern flank after Russia drone incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday, European countries &#8211; and the US &#8211; stood by Poland during an urgent UN Security Council session in New York discussing Russia&#8217;s drone incursion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The United States stands by our Nato allies in the face of these alarming airspace violations,&#8221; acting US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea said. &#8220;And rest assured, we will defend every inch of Nato territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that since Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a summit in Alaska nearly a month ago to discuss peace, &#8220;Russia has intensified its bombing campaign against Ukraine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While addressing the UN on Friday, Poland&#8217;s Secretary of State Marcin Bosacki held up photos of one of the downed drones, and a damaged house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know &#8211; and I repeat &#8211; we know that it was not a mistake,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Netherlands and Czech Republic have already said they would send defences to Poland, while Lithuania will receive a German brigade and greater warning of Russian attacks on Ukraine that could cross over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Germany also said it would &#8220;intensify its engagement along Nato&#8217;s eastern border&#8221; and extend and expand air policing over Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, European countries &#8211; and the US &#8211; stood by Poland during an urgent UN Security Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-420438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115195619871488295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}