{"id":440135,"date":"2025-09-21T04:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440135\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T04:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:39:18","slug":"france-sends-jets-to-poland-the-uk-ramps-up-sanctions-in-a-signal-to-russia-not-to-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440135\/","title":{"rendered":"France sends jets to Poland, the UK ramps up sanctions in a signal to Russia not to escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARSAW, Poland — France said Friday it\u2019s deploying fighter jets to Poland and the UK announced fresh sanctions targeting Russia\u2019s oil revenues and war machine as Europe\u2019s first, measured steps to Russia\u2019s drone incursion into Poland<\/a> aimed to send a signal to Moscow that any further aggression won\u2019t go unchecked.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would deploy three advanced Rafale fighter jets to help protect Poland\u2019s airspace and NATO\u2019s eastern flank to fulfill a commitment he made to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. He said the deployment was discussed with both NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe security of the European continent is our top priority. We will not yield to Russia\u2019s growing intimidation,\u201d Macron posted on X.<\/p>\n

Britain’s new sanctions include bans on 70 vessels that the U.K. says is part of Russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d that transports Russian oil in defiance of sanctions already in place. Some 30 individuals and companies \u2014 including Chinese and Turkey-based firms \u2014 have also been sanctioned for their part in supplying Russia with electronics, chemicals, explosives and other weapons components.<\/p>\n

The new sanctions came as British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper made her first trip to Kyiv Friday after her appointment a week ago following Starmer\u2019s Cabinet shake-up.<\/p>\n

Cooper said her visit is a demonstration of solidarity with Ukraine which faces a tenfold missile and drone Russian assault from a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UK will not stand idly by as Putin continues his barbaric invasion of Ukraine,\u201d Cooper said, noting what she said was the Russian president\u2019s \u201ccomplete disregard for sovereignty\u201d by sending drones in to NATO airspace.<\/p>\n

\u201cInternational action to increase economic pressure on Russia and to cut off critical cash flows which he desperately needs to pay for this illegal war is vital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poland\u2019s Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski was also visiting Kyiv on Friday. His Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha posted on X that the two officials would discuss \u201cshared security, Ukraine\u2019s EU and NATO accession, and pressure on Moscow.\u201d Meanwhile, Poland’s Defense Ministry said it will work with Ukraine to train personnel on anti-drone defense.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s multiple Russian drone strike on Polish soil<\/a> rattled Europe\u2019s leaders who saw it as a deliberate provocation and forced them to confront long-standing fears that Russia\u2019s three-year war<\/a> on Ukraine could precipitate a wider conflict. It also compelled NATO allies to take a closer look at the means at their disposal to counter any further threats.<\/p>\n

U.S.-led efforts to steer Moscow and Kyiv toward a peace settlement <\/a> have so far failed to get traction.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tusk, the Polish prime minister, dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s suggestion that the drone incursion into Poland may have been \u201ca mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake,\u201d Tusk wrote on X. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t. And we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, Poland — France said Friday it\u2019s deploying fighter jets to Poland and the UK announced fresh sanctions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[148953,3907,2595,2000,299,36,4179,285,7661,26933,7660,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-440135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-148953","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","17":"tag-sanctions-and-embargoes","18":"tag-war-and-unrest","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440135","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=440135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}