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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.

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[–] falseWhite@programming.dev 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

He's not stupid to attack a NATO member. So maybe Moldova? But then why is he testing the skies in the other end of Europe and not near Moldova? Nah, he's not going to attack anyone else.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Might be testing the skies simply for the intelligence, that is also valued by China and Iran whether or not they plan to actually do anything with the information.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

He doesn't share a land border with Moldova. The most likely option is Azerbaijan. Not NATO, lots of recent disagreements, starting an alliance with Armenia and Turkey.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Azerbaijan and Armenia are about as far from being allies as two countries can be.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

But Trump brokered peace with Albania!

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I think they're saying the alliance would be Armenia/Turkey/Russia - Azerbaijan is the target.

Although I don't know what good it would do for Putin to open up another front when they already are stretched thin but obviously Zelensky knows more than me.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

No, a couple of weeks ago there was a report about some form of cooperation between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, with a corridor between the three countries, and an intent to make them independent from Moscow and I really thought some mutual protection.

At least, that's what I remembered, but I can't find anything anymore, so maybe I read more into it than it was. Ir maybe it didn't last. I don't know.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago

Turkey and Azerbaijan refer to their relationship as "two states one nation". They are not going to war either.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

There was that plane Russia shot down, and a serious breakdown of relationships between Russia and Azerbaijan. I akso thought the peace deal had some serious cooperation between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, but I can't find any details, so it's possible I imagined that.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bait and switch? "Hey everyone look over here!"

[–] KingArnulf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yep, but not just "look over here." He wants them to move their resources and position their defenses to respond from an attack in those areas. That will potentially leave them out of position to respond quickly to whatever he actually does.