Drone attacks in Russia, the positions of NATO countries: what we know

Waiting for the Ukrainian counter-offensive, The drone war has broken out between Moscow and Kiev. For the first time since the beginning of the conflict also the Russian capital was directly involved. Unmanned aircraft were launched towards the city and crashed into residential towers in what Russian authorities have called a “terrorist” attack on Kiev

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L’Ukraine has denied its involvement. But she at the same time declares she is “pleased to watch and predict an increase in the number of attacks,” as presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said. Kiev’s goal, he said PutinAnd “to terrorize the Russians”but above all “to provoke a response from Russia. We will see what to do about it”, added the president

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Within the coalition Born the reactions they were different. The United States has said it does not support attacks inside Russia, but they claimed that Russia bears responsibility for the war with Ukraine. “In general, we do not support attacks inside Russia. We have focused on providing Ukraine with the equipment and training it needs to regain its sovereign territory,” a State Department spokesman said during the meeting. visit of State Secretary Antony Blinken to Sweden

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Even the spokeswoman of the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, reiterated: “We are collecting information on what happened. We do not support attacks inside Russia”. opposite position to that provided by the British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly (pictured), who claimed “the legitimate right” of Ukraine to “defend itself” from Russia even “projecting its own strength” beyond its borders. Cleverly refused to speculate about the drone attack on Moscow

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Among other things, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be received next week at the White House by American President Joe Biden for a summit intended, according to Downing Street, to consolidate the axis between Washington and London on support for Ukraine in the war with the Russia. Moscow, despite Washington’s words, accuses the United States and all of NATO of “hypocrisy”, reserving “the right to adopt the most severe measures in response to the terrorist attacks in Kiev”, warned the Foreign Ministry

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What is certain is that the attacks had a strong emotional impact on Muscovites and Russians in general, provoking new thrusts against the military leaders by critics deployed on extremist positions. “Why are you letting these drones get to Moscow?” the head of Wagner asked, Yevgeny Prigozhin (in the photo), addressing the defense leaders with the epithet of “dirty bastards”. While the Chechen commander Ramzan Kadyrov has again called for the introduction of martial law

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Meanwhile, the Institute for the Study of War (Isw) in a report, explains that Russia’s options to respond to the drone attack on Moscow are “limited” and therefore Putin tried yesterday to downplay it. Analysts from the US research center observe that the Russian president has placed emphasis on missile attacks by Russian forces – both recent and ongoing ones – and this “is probably an attempt to signal that Russia is already actively responding and does not need to respond to further Ukrainian provocations”

Instead the financial timesin an expert analysis, hypothesizes that with these “modeling operations” such as drone strikes, Kiev is anticipating the counteroffensive. Operations that “are part of standard military practice” and whose purpose, say defense officials and analysts, is to deceive the enemy, intrude on his mindset and “shape” the battlefield before a major offensive

Drone attack, Putin: “Kiev wants to terrorize the Russians, the Kremlin will know how to respond”