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.
There might be some merits to this. Trump did recently, without a reason, changed his tune to protecting Ukraine again.
I think it’s because he’s become obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize.
He was always been since Obama got it. So nothing changed about that.
I’d say in the past few weeks he seems to have become more aggressive about it, campaigning for it demanding nominations from people.
In August there were a few things where he seemed preoccupied with his afterlife fate, seems like maybe he is keenly feeling his mortality and thinks he needs to get this peace prize thing in a hurry as a piece of maybe buying him a better outcome.
A weird twisted Trumpy way of going about it, but I think he actually wants to somehow be the ‘good guy’, but unfortunately he doesn’t exactly even know how to be good so he’s coming up short, but he’s managed to change a couple of things to start spouting closer to the right message.
That is all possible. Thanks for your thoughts.
It’s mostly a distraction scheme to distract from internal problems, I’d say.
There was ALWAYS problems even before he started. What changed?
Trump wanted to be the guy who Made A Deal with Russia and ended the war. Putin made a big show of the Alaska Summit and then delivered exactly dick-all (which - to be fair - is the smart move when dealing with Trump). At the same time, Starmer’s been licking his taint in hopes of winning concessions for the UK tech industry. So now Trump’s incredibly sore at being burned by Russian and Starmer-curious.
But this will only last until Ukraine starts “looking like losers” according to his right-wing media friends. I would give it a few more months before he flips back again.
He massively disrespected and embarrassed Trump at the alaskan summit. It may be partly cos of that Trump has switched.