Ukraine-Russia war live: Trump says ‘here we go’ in reaction to Russia violating Polish airspace

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk told the country’s parliament that the Russian drone incident came under Article 4 of the treaty that founded the alliance in 1949 in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Article 4, when raised by a Nato nation facing any threat, can put urgent matters on the agenda for an alliance meeting.

Article 4, the shortest of the Nato treaty’s 14 articles, states that: “The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”

Bob Deen, an analyst at the Clingendael think tank in The Hague, said the article is designed to promote better coordination and understanding within the alliance on external threats.

“It gives all allies the opportunity to urgently put certain threats or developments on the agenda of the North Atlantic Council,” he said.

“Article 4 gets invoked relatively rarely but increasingly in recent years; Turkey alone invoked it five times between 2003-2020 in the context of Syria and Iraq,” said Deen.

He pointed out that eight allies have invoked it in 2022 shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Poland triggered it once in 2014 after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea.

Britain has pledged to mass produce Ukrainian-designed interceptor drones to help Ukraine counter Russian missiles and one-way attack drones.

The joint project had a target to produce thousands of drones per month, which would each cost less than 10 per cent to make compared to the targets they were designed to intercept, the government said in a statement.

In June, prime minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced a defence co-production initiative.

The British government, which had previously committed to increasing drone deliveries to Ukraine tenfold by April 2026, has pledged £4.5bn ($6.10bn) in military support to Ukraine this year, its largest commitment to date.

The Nato response to Russian drones targeting Poland must go beyond diplomatic disapproval – and result in real action, writes Keir Giles. Failure to do so will encourage Putin to test the West’s resolve in yet more countries.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on a phone call and shared concerns about the situation in the Middle East in the aftermath of Israeli strikes in Qatar.

The two leaders also spoke about developments in Russia’s “war of aggression against Ukraine,” particularly following Russian drone incursions into Poland, Macron said in an X post.

“Close cooperation between Europeans and Americans is crucial on each of these fronts,” Macron said.