Ukraine’s president says Kremlin checking Europe’s capacity to protect its skies following new drone sightings

Vladimir Putin will expand his war in Ukraine by attacking another European country, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has predicted, and accused Russia of recent drone incursions that he said were an attempt to test Nato’s defences.

Speaking in Kyiv after his meeting with Donald Trump at the UN in New York, the Ukrainian president said Russia was preparing for a bigger conflict. “Putin will not wait to finish his war in Ukraine. He will open up some other direction. Nobody knows where. He wants that,” he said.

Ukraine’s president said the Kremlin was deliberately checking Europe’s capacity to protect its skies, after drone sightings in Denmark, Poland and Romania and the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets. More drones were spotted on Friday night above a Danish military base, and over a Norwegian base on Saturday.

  • Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
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    “Nuclear weapons use” is an element of their doctrine for foreign policy influence.

    They are not fucking idiots. But they do recognize that “nuclear blah blah” works well with cowardly westerners.

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      They are not fucking idiots? They absolutely are fucking idiots. And they are being backed into a corner. A lot of stuff can happen.

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        19 hours ago

        How much do you know about russian history? If your life was on the line, do you think you could write 3 key bullet points (since your life is on the line, you wouldn’t have access to a search engine or an LLM) about every decade of 20th century russia? Basic things like 1906 protests, implementation of NEP, Khrushev and so on. No one is asking for in-depth knowledge.

        Do you speak russian? How do you know they are not playing you if you don’t speak russian?

        Your message about “backed into a corner” is exactly what they want you to think. They got you “hook line and sinker” as the North Americans like to say.

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            8 hours ago

            You think your the first person I’ve met with this attitude? Be it IRL/online or from EU or USA?

            You can’t even speak russian and you claim to understand their leadership and society. It’s extremely ignorant.