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# Putin’s next target practice
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/09/14/putins-next-target-practice/
- Published: 2025-09-14T00:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-14T03:52:34.000Z
- Description: Russia escalates tensions with additional drone incursions into NATO airspace while the West debates how far to respond. | Today’s Political Cartoon.
- Author: TODAY's Cartoons
- Tags: Today's Cartoon, Russia vs The West, Vladimir Putin, Russia, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Drones, Drone Attack, TODAY+

Russia continues to escalate tensions with NATO as its drones breach Polish and Romanian airspace. While European nations scramble jets and boost defences, Ukraine’s President Zelensky warns of deliberate escalation and urges sanctions and stronger defence.

Donald Trump is delaying sanctions, conditioning U.S. action as usual, as allies debate the urgency of confronting Russia’s provocative drone strategy.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2025/09/0000376-min.jpg)

Putin treating NATO countries like pieces in a sinister board game.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2021/09/end-flat-1.png) 

### **GOING FURTHER**

- ###### [Drones in Poland are another unsettling post-Alaska escalation by Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/drones-poland-post-alaska-escalation-russia-analysis?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN
- ###### [Romania reports Russian drone in its airspace as Poland scrambles jets again](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/14/romania-reports-russian-drone-in-its-airspace-as-poland-scrambles-jets-again?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN

  
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