US President Donald Trump has warned his patience with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is "running out and running out fast". This comes after a week of heavy Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory, which has also affected Poland.

"But it does take two to tango," Mr Trump said during an interview with Fox News on Friday (September 12), referring to Ukraine and its leader, Volodymyr Zelensky. "It’s amazing when Putin wants to do it, Zelensky didn’t. When Zelensky wanted to do it, Putin didn’t. Now Zelensky wants to, and Putin is a question mark… But we’re going to have to come down very, very strong," he added. This is not the first time Mr Trump has revealed his patience with the Kremlin leader is wearing thin - a sentiment he and his supporters have repeated on several occasions.

Earlier this month, the US President said he was "disappointed" with Putin’s actions. On September 2, Trump announced he would take "certain measures". A few days later, he said he was ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia.

Earlier this year, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said he believed President Trump was losing his patience with Mr Putin over his stalling tactics over a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Putin did not turn up to the scheduled peace talks in Istanbul in May, instead sending a delegation of diplomats who held talks with Ukrainian officials for only around two hours. Ukraine's President Zelensky did attend the event.

A few months later, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump was "losing patience" with Putin after he appeared to ignore the US President's threat of "severe" tariffs unless a ceasefire in Ukraine was agreed. Trump gave the Russian leader a 50-day deadline to agree a peace deal, or face new sanctions - to then cut the deadline to just 10 to 12 days, after talks between the two leaders failed "on too many occasions".

On Wednesday (September 10), some two dozen Russian drones infiltrated deep into Polish territory - for the first time since the start of the war - before being shot down.

Some UAVs reached far northern and central areas of the country. Most wreckage from the drones has been recovered, primarily in Lublin Voivodeship, near the Belarusian border. One drone destroyed the roof of a residential building and damaged a car.

In response, Sweden, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Czechia, France and Germany called in their Russian ambassadors to offer a formal explanation.

However, a Polish army lieutenant has warned that Poland's use of F-35 aircraft to shoot down these drones shows it is not ready for mass drone warfare. Lieutenant General Jarosław Gromadziński said he believed this action proves that Russia is provoking Poland and testing the country's reaction capabilities and response times.