In what can only be described as a significant attack on the eve of a possible peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, Russia has now launched a major missile and drone attack on Ukraine. Some of the missiles and drones struck targets within a mile of the border with Romania, which is a NATO member. German fighters were scrambled to monitor the attack.
This (obviously) doesn't bode well for any upcoming peace talks.
Two German warplanes were scrambled overnight from Romania after Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack in Ukraine less than a mile from the NATO borderline.
Romania’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday that two German Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, stationed at Romania's Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base as part of NATO's Enhanced Air Policing mission, were deployed "to monitor the air situation," but noted that this time no Russian aircraft or projectiles crossed the NATO border.
Despite last week’s talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump, Moscow has continued its aerial bombardment of Ukraine, including in an overnight attack that targeted oil and port facilities in the Odesa region on and near the Danube River, which separates the Ukrainian border with the allied NATO nation of Romania.
That's perilously close to a NATO member nation, but it appears that none of the Russian devices landed in Romania. But it was nevertheless a significant attack. Sumy is in northern Ukraine, near the Russian border, while Donetsk is in the Donbas region that Russia's President Putin seems determined to hang on to. The part of the attack that is causing some worries for NATO involved a missile and drone attack on oil facilities near Odesa, which is in southern Ukraine near the borders with Moldova and Romania.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported early on Wednesday that more than 60 drones and ballistic missiles were fired across Ukraine overnight, including the northeastern region of Sumy, where a drone strike injured 14 people — though Ukraine’s Air Force later increased the number of overnight drone strikes to 93, and noted that 62 of the Shahed-style drones were intercepted, as well as one ballistic missile.
"A family with wounded children — 5 months, 4 years, and 6 years old — sought assistance after the attack," Zelenskyy said.
A glide bomb in Donetsk damaged five apartment buildings, and three people were still trapped under the rubble as of Wednesday morning.
This attack had to have been in the planning stages before Tsar Vladimir I met with President Trump in Alaska.
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In the upcoming days, the plans in place appear to be for a round of virtual meetings with NATO, the leaders of Europe, the United States, and Ukraine, to work out what security guarantees can be provided for Ukraine. This attack, indeed, all of Russia's attacks since the peace process began, are complicating that. The question now becomes how seriously Ukraine, Europe, and the USA should take Putin's talk about ending the war.
Times in Eastern Europe are getting more interesting by the day.
This is (as usual) a developing situation. Stay tuned.
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