{"id":423291,"date":"2025-09-14T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/423291\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:57:41","slug":"russian-drones-in-poland-have-no-impact-on-switzerland-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/423291\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian drones in Poland have &#8216;no impact&#8217; on Switzerland: defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/512024bbc363ac6f211609c3761b7ab3b820783b-90000242.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Russian drones in Poland have &quot;no impact&quot; on Switzerland\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                The Swiss defence minister described the intrusion into Polish airspace as a &#8220;violation of the territorial integrity of a European state&#8221;.             <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<ul class=\"read-aloud\/track-selector__options\">\n<li>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        According to Swiss Defence Minister Martin Pfister, the intrusion of Russian drones into Polish airspace currently has &#8221; no concrete impact&#8221; on Switzerland. &#8220;However, it shows how unstable the situation in Europe is,&#8221; said Pfister in an interview.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        September 14, 2025 &#8211; 10:40\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s security is threatened beyond Ukraine, said Pfister in an interview published in Sunday\u2019s SonntagsZeitung newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>He described the intrusion into Polish airspace as a \u201cviolation of the territorial integrity of a European state\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reactions of the European states show that they are taking the threat very seriously,\u201d said the minister, because with such actions, the risk of escalation increases.<\/p>\n<p>Identical scenario unlikely<\/p>\n<p>According to the government, an identical scenario for Switzerland is not very likely, if only because of its geographical location. If it did happen, however, the Swiss air defence system would not be able to repel such drones, said Pfister.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/531045514_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"904\" alt=\"A Ukrainian soldier launches FlyEye WB Electronics SA, a Polish reconnaissance drone, which is in service with the Ukrainian army, in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        International Geneva\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Warfare rewired: drones and civilian risk    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jul 4, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                Drone warfare is rapidly reshaping modern conflict, raising urgent questions about accountability and compliance with international humanitarian law.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/international-geneva\/conflict-drones-civilian-casualties-international-humanitarian-law\/89564602\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Warfare rewired: drones and civilian risk<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do have air defence systems that can shoot down drones at close range,\u201d he said, \u201cbut Switzerland is waiting for medium- and long-range systems to be delivered. We know that the Patriot system, in particular, is experiencing delays\u201d. As a result of its support for Ukraine, the US Department of Defence is giving new priority to the delivery of Patriot systems, so Switzerland should only receive later production runs.<\/p>\n<p>Cooperation with neighbouring countries<\/p>\n<p>The defence minister pointed out that Switzerland\u2019s intelligence service has long been indicating that the threat is set to worsen: \u201cThere is a risk that security in Switzerland will be much more threatened in the next five years than we imagine today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2024-06-20T121923Z_39763708_RC22E8AES1IH_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-KHARKIV-REGION.jpg\" width=\"3013\" height=\"1997\" alt=\"A Ukrainian serviceman launches a mid-range reconnaissance type drone to fly over positions of Russian troops in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine June 19, 2024.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Foreign Affairs\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Switzerland\u2019s drone dilemma    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Oct 22, 2024                    <\/p>\n<p>                In the age of drone wars, the military industry is a lucrative market for Swiss innovations \u2013 but engaging with it clashes with Switzerland\u2019s neutrality.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/foreign-affairs\/switzerlands-drone-dilemma\/87693979\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Switzerland\u2019s drone dilemma<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the subject of drones, Pfister also referred to closer cooperation with neighbouring countries. Drones could be combated more effectively if they were detected early and well before the national border, he said. Cooperation should go as far as possible, but only to the point where Switzerland can still decide autonomously on the use of its resources.<\/p>\n<p>During a Russian air attack on Ukraine last Tuesday night, a large number of drones also penetrated Polish airspace, and hence NATO airspace. The Polish air force and other NATO allies shot down a number of Russian drones for the first time. Since then, Poland has received increased support from its NATO allies. Switzerland is not a member of NATO. On Saturday evening, Romania in turn claimed that its airspace had been violated by a drone during a Russian attack on infrastructure in neighbouring Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Translated from French with DeepL\/gw<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. The news stories we select have been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team from news agencies such as Bloomberg or Keystone.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about how we work, write to us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/foreign-affairs\/russian-drones-in-poland-have-no-impact-on-switzerland\/mailto:english@swissinfo.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">english@swissinfo.ch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4f0365294d5baf18f201a504e399668c9a3b6024-89997453.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"E-cars account for 10.5 per cent of new registrations in the canton of Zug\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        E-cars account for 10.5% of new registrations in the canton of Zug    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Sep 13, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                Nowhere else in Switzerland are electric cars as popular as in Zug. 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