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.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      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.

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        6 minutes 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.

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        11 hours ago

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