Live, war in Ukraine: Polish air force fired on "hostile objects" after repeated violations of its airspace by Russia on Tuesday night

The Polish military on Wednesday described the intrusion of drones into its airspace as an "act of aggression." More than ten flying objects were detected by Polish radar during a Russian attack on western Ukraine.

"Following today's attack by the Russian Federation on Ukrainian territory, an unprecedented violation of Polish airspace by drone-type objects has taken place. This is an act of aggression that has created a real threat to the security of our citizens," the Polish Army's Operational Command stressed in a message on X.

"I have informed the NATO Secretary General of the current situation and the measures we have taken against the objects that violated our airspace. We are in constant contact," Donald Tusk said on social media.

Warsaw's main airport, Chopin, has been closed, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) website, due to "unforeseen military activity related to state security."

"The operation is underway following multiple violations of Polish airspace. The army used weapons against these objects," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on X.

Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced that aircraft fired at "hostile objects" after "violations" of Polish airspace during a Russian attack on western Ukraine. This is the first time a NATO member has done so since the start of the conflict.

"The aircraft used their weapons against hostile objects. We are in constant contact with NATO command," the minister said in a message on X.

The Polish army on Wednesday denounced repeated violations of its airspace during a Russian attack on western Ukraine.

"During today's attack by the Russian Federation against targets located on Ukrainian territory, our airspace was repeatedly violated by drones," the Polish army command center said in a message on X.

After a US official told Agence France-Presse, speaking on condition of anonymity, that the United States was prepared to impose additional tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, such as China and India, in order to hamper the Russian war effort, Donald Trump affirmed that negotiations were continuing with New Delhi.

Discussions continue to "resolve the issue of trade barriers between our two countries," the American president announced Tuesday in a message on his Truth Social network.

"I am sure that we will have no difficulty in reaching a favorable conclusion for our two great countries," he added, while the United States currently imposes 50% customs duties on a majority of imported Indian products, half of which are in sanction for New Delhi's purchases of Russian oil.

According to the US official quoted by AFP, Washington was prepared to use the leverage of tariffs on China and India to put pressure on Russia, provided the European Union agreed to do the same.

In his evening speech, the Ukrainian president returned to the bombing of the village of Yarova on Tuesday morning. "Russia continues its killings, and it's terrifying to see that there is still no strong international response," he lamented.

Faced with Russia, which "continues its escalation in the conflict ," Ukraine needs "ten additional Patriot systems, as well as missiles for Patriot, SAMP/T, NASAMS, IRIS-T and HAWK," wrote Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal on Telegram on Tuesday evening. "This is an urgent matter, as Russia is planning new strikes against Ukraine's energy sector and infrastructure," he added.

Among the measures to be implemented, the minister cites the need for a clear timetable for regular funding and arms deliveries, $6 billion for drone production, and "sanctions and the confiscation of frozen Russian assets." "Economic pressure must be increased so that Russia has fewer resources for war," he said .

The ^30th meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine's Defense took place in London on Tuesday, where Germany announced a program to provide Kiev with thousands of long-range drones for a total of 300 million euros.

The Polish internal security service ABW "arrested a Belarusian agent yesterday. The arrest is the result of cooperation with Romanian and Czech services in particular," Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, announced Tuesday on X.

Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak identified the Belarusian agent as Uladzislau N. and said Hungarian and Moldovan intelligence services were also involved in the operation. "The suspect was conducting intelligence activities on Polish and Hungarian territory," he said on X, adding that he had been charged with espionage.

"A Belarusian diplomat who is assisting in the aggressive activities of Belarusian intelligence services against our country will also be expelled from Poland," the Polish Prime Minister also declared. According to the Interior Minister, this diplomat was "directly involved in intelligence activity."

Relations between neighboring Poland and Belarus have been at their lowest since the start of Russia's offensive against Ukraine in 2022. Warsaw is one of Kyiv's main European supporters, while Minsk is a key ally of Moscow.

As part of the Bring Kids Back initiative, a 14-year-old girl , "separated from her mother for more than three and a half years, was rescued from the occupation," Andriy Yermak, chief of staff of Volodymyr Zelensky, announced on Telegram on Tuesday.

Her mother having left to work in Kiev at the start of the Russian invasion, the teenager remained in the care of her grandfather in her hometown "occupied by the Russians from the first days of the war" , specifies Andriy Yermak, who adds that "the child lived under constant pressure and fear" .

"At school, she was forced to glorify Russia and repeat propaganda speeches, and her grandfather was repeatedly threatened with having his granddaughter sent to a boarding school if he tried to send her back to her mother," he wrote.

Germany will launch a program to provide Ukraine with "several thousand long-range drones" for "deep strikes" against the "Russian war machine," for a total amount of 300 million euros, its defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said on Tuesday.

This "new deep strike initiative" will include "the delivery of several thousand long-range drones" manufactured by the Ukrainian defense industry, Mr. Pistorius said at a meeting in London of the Contact Group on Ukraine's defense.

The United Kingdom, which signed an agreement with Ukraine in June on the production of drones, "will finance the delivery of thousands of long-range attack drones, built in the United Kingdom, over the next twelve months," recalled British Defense Secretary John Healey.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: "Putin is intensifying his attacks on Ukraine, so we must go further and faster to quickly deliver essential military equipment to Ukrainian fighters," added the British minister who chaired this meeting of around fifty countries in hybrid format.

In January, London announced that an international coalition co-led by the United Kingdom and Latvia would send 30,000 drones to Kyiv through an International Fund for Ukraine. This fund, administered by the United Kingdom and supplemented by Ukraine's allies and partners, purchases priority military equipment, including air defense systems.

John Healey announced that the fund has now raised more than £2 billion (€2.3 billion).

"All options are on the table" to push Moscow to begin peace talks on Ukraine, and "we are ready to take strong measures against Russia" if this is not the case, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reaffirmed.

On his X account, Mr. Bessent called on Monday night to Tuesday "our European partners to join us fully so that we can achieve this" , insisting that "the status quo has not worked" .

The European Union's (EU) special envoy for sanctions, David O'Sullivan, launched talks with the US government in Washington on Monday regarding new measures against Russia. The first meeting lasted just under two hours, according to a source familiar with the matter, and was attended by Mr. Bessent and John Hurley, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Economic Intelligence.

Scott Bessent had already stated on Sunday that the United States was "ready to increase pressure" on Russia to end the war in Ukraine, calling on the EU to do the same.

"If the US and the EU can agree on more sanctions, on tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil, the Russian economy will collapse. And that will bring President Putin to the negotiating table," Mr. Bessent insisted.

At least 24 people were killed and 19 others injured, the Interior Ministry said. A previous report put the death toll at least 23.

"The Russians dropped a guided aerial bomb on the center of the village while a line of civilians had gathered" to receive their pension benefits, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko wrote on Telegram.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced that it has opened an investigation into war crimes.

"For reasons of national security, we will close the borders with Belarus, including railway crossings, in connection with the Zapad maneuvers, starting Thursday night and Friday at midnight," Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, told reporters, describing the Russian-Belarusian military exercise as "aggressive."

The Zapad-2025 (West-2025) exercises are scheduled to take place between September 12 and 16. According to the Polish prime minister, the aim of the Russian-Belarusian exercise is to simulate the occupation of the Suwalki Corridor, which runs along the Polish-Lithuanian border, surrounded by the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. This corridor is often considered a "fragile area" for NATO and could be the first target of a hypothetical Russian attack.

Donald Tusk assured that, in response to these maneuvers, Poland would take part with its allies in a military exercise on its soil which should bring together a total of 30,000 soldiers.

"At the moment, 23 people are dead and 18 are injured. Three of them are in serious condition," Oleksandr Zhuravlov, head of the Lyman military administration, told the Ukrainian media Suspilne .

Russian forces carried out an airstrike Tuesday morning on a mobile post office in Yarova, a town in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky had said earlier in the day that more than 20 people who had come to collect their pensions had died in the attack.

"We do not trust Vladimir Putin's good intentions," Polish President Karol Nawrocki said Tuesday at a press conference with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb in Helsinki.

"While we are, of course, waiting for a long-term peace, a permanent peace, which is necessary for our regions, we believe that Vladimir Putin is ready to invade other countries as well," said the newly elected Polish nationalist president. "This is exactly why we are developing our armed forces, our partnership and our relations with our allies," he added, without giving specific examples.

He said the "security architecture" across the region had changed and that Donald Trump was "the only leader in the free world" who could force the Russian leader to negotiate.

"We are trying to explain that Mr. Putin cannot be trusted and that he is playing with his usual delaying tactics," Mr. Stubb said.

The warnings come after concerns were expressed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said on Monday that Mr Putin's "imperialist plan would not end with the conquest of Ukraine," but would only be the beginning.

A postal worker was injured in the Russian strike on Yarova in the Donetsk region. She was hospitalized, the state-owned post office, Ukrpochta , said Tuesday. In Ukraine, the post office distributes pensions to more than 2 million people. "In order to ensure the safety of people and not deprive them of essential services, we are working with the civil and military administration to change the procedure for paying pensions in the near-front zone," the statement added.

Postal workers may be tasked with delivering pension payments in the countryside, including areas near the front, where public services and banks have been forced to close due to the danger. Distribution may be organized in groups along a village street, for efficiency rather than a house-to-house visit.

The arrival of the postman, which is not usually a daily occurrence, is often eagerly awaited by the population, according to journalists from Agence France-Presse. In addition to distributing pensions, letters, and parcels, postal workers sell food and basic necessities in these communities where stores are scarce.