Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday that Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia would not be possible without help from the West, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
“Zakharova stressed that the Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would not have been able to travel such a distance without information feeds from Western satellites,” TASS reported.
The comments came after drones targeted six Russian regions early Wednesday in what is said to be the largest Ukrainian drone attack on the country since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. One of the Russian cities that was targeted was Pskov, which is about 20 miles from the border of NATO member Estonia and over 400 miles from Ukraine.
The massive drone attack came after The Washington Post reported that the US expected Ukrainian operations inside Russia to increase. The Economist reported that Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia use intelligence “often from Western partners.”
Zakharova added that the drone attacks will not “go unpunished” and criticized attacks on “peaceful civilian targets.” The Economist report also said that the purpose of the drone attacks is to have a “psychological impact” on “ordinary Russians” not affected by the war.
“Russian law enforcement structures are investigating and thoroughly documenting all the instances of shelling of Russian regions by Ukrainian militants as well as of their other criminal activity,” Zakharova added.
Zakharova says these drone attacks will not go unpunished. If they decide to hit targets from the original source from how they see it. That will be an attack from Russia towards NATO.
One step closer to World War 3.
But they know the attack didn’t come from NATO.
They are only trying to change the narrative to gain support from the already sick of the Kremlin lies Russian people.
Strikes and counter strikes. The escalatory spiral continues until more lives and property are blown up. Our political leaders are such primitive and violent specimens.
The escalation started when Putin invaded and annexed.
No invasion, no escalation. He can’t invade and expect the invaded country to not fight back.
Self defense is not escalation.
You cannot just start history on the date that is most
most convenient to your narrative.
It started at least as far back as 2014.
You know the story.
It started from day one of the Cold War ending.
It started, at the latest, in 1917.
Yes, at the latest. Before then, the national and ethnic hostilities were harder to untangle, but it’s all pretty clear from 1917 onward.
The Ukrainian movement for independence from Russia started way before 1917. By 1917 the Ukrainians had been pushing back against forced assimilation by Catherine the Great and her successors since the eighteenth century. The Czars banned the Ukrainian language, outlawed Ukrainian literature, closed Ukrainian schools, closed Ukrainian churches, persecuted Ukrainian priests, enserfed and impoverished Ukrainian peasants, forcibly settled Russians on Ukrainian lands, instigated pogroms against Jews and sometimes against Catholics and unleashed the Cossack depredations that led to the Ukrainian nationalist movement that was fighting against assimilation and for independence for over a century before 1917.
The problem is Russian chauvinists don’t recognize the wold view of their victims. But Ukrainians have been resisting Russian imperialism long before Lenin recognized that the Soviets could not force Ukraine into the USSR.
The Ukrainian movement for independence may have started before 1917.
The US enmity toward Russia pretty much started with the October Revolution of 1917, though.
Who bankrolled the Bolshevik Revolution?
Tsar Nicholas II.
Lenin got some transportation assistance from the Germans, though.
Right. But this is a war about Ukrainian independence.
US is trying to take advantage of the war to hurt Russia. But it is wrong to think of this as a US/Russia conflict. The Ukrainians will fight on even after US material support ends.
For the Ukrainians it started in 1547 when the Grand Duke of Muscovy proclaimed that he was “Czar of all the Russias” and claimed Ukraine as part the Russian empire. That’s why the Russians can’t win this war.
Ok then. Ukraine will win. But it will be smaller.
Yeah, sure. NATO invaded Russia. I get it.
What?
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Yep, I know the story but do YOU know it? Let me help you; Yanukovych was bribed by Putin to not sign the economic agreement with the EU supported 100% by the people and the parliament. Such agreement was expected to significantly increase the economy in Ukraine which would also lead to Ukraine selling its own Natural Gas to the EU (this was a big NO to Putin because it was going to impact his own gas sales to the EU market greatly).
The people then went out to protest to demand Yanukovych to step down. Once out, and Putin, knowing that the next President was not going to renew the Sevastopol Base lease beyond 2017, went ahead and took Crimea then ask the Donbass separatists to take up arms and start a war against Ukraine (this is confirmed by Igor, leader of the Donbas Separatists and now arrested in Moscow). Putin went beyond and promise military support.
Putin then realized he needed a land corridor into Crimea because the bridge would not suffice.
Putin also knew that a land corridor could only be achieved if he invaded the Entire Ukraine which would give him control of all the rich land (grain, natural gas, seaports, and government). This is when he started to demonize Ukrainians by calling them Neo Nazis and claim that Ukraine belong to Russia.
So he broke the Budapest Agreement and his own word that Crimea nor Ukraine were disputed territory.
But to you, this is my own history.
The EU agreement would have sucked the life out of the country, letting foreign investors to take over. Yakunovitch was balking about the EU “deal” from the very beginning. Putin offered him a better deal. Yakunovitch was looking out for the welfare of the people, who elected him, not foreign interests. A leader has to do things like that, in the face of foreign propaganda trying to get the country on the foreign interlopers side. Putin’s deal was BETTER, as it only required that Ukraine use the money for which it was borrowed. Take your world hegemony Empire narrative, and GIT ! 😉
That’s the BS Russia was spreading.
Foreign investors taking over? GTFOH. Did you even read the agreement? Russia and China are the only powers that engage in predatory foreign investments. Not the EU. Find me one EU nation or partner complaining on economic agreements with the EU that has put the country in worse economic conditions. None. Not even the UK.
A better deal from Russia? Like the Budapest deal and natural gas? So almost 100% of the people and parliament voted for it but Yanukovych decided it was not good for the country. He was going to sign it until Putin intervened so your argument is baseless. This was a bad agreement but only for Putin.
Russia has been weaponizing the flow of natural gas to Ukraine for decades and blackmailing Ukrainians.
Any deal with Russia
Fighting back against these countries upholding US sanctions against him is “weaponizing” and “blackmailing” ? Typical Neocon spin. LOL ! Would the US stand even for that, let alone use arm twisting tactics ? By the way, I don’t get my info from Russian sources, but from former CIA analysts, people who were directly observing US subterfuge of the Russian Federation from the time the USSR fell, Western based investigative reporters, former US military officers, etc.
You are full of it.
Do you mind sharing your “former CIA analyst news channel?
By the way and just in case, Scott Ritter and Col Mcgregor were never CIA.
Do your own research, and maybe you’ll eventually let go of the silly, unsubstantiated false premise (the root of most, if not all) of your contentions) that Putin is motivated by a desire to reinstitute the old USSR.
The escalation started from NATO’s first inch of movement eastward.
Putin plays 16 dimensional chess and he’s just now figuring this out? Maybe he needs to stop playing chess and pay attention then? …Oh, wait. You want him to stay distracted? You want him to forget about that BIG RED BUTTON SITTING RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS FACE ON TOP OF HIS DESK? …Wait? Are you serious? That’s your plan? (Distracting Sarcasm)
He can push the other red button and get his sh!t army out of Ukraine in the name of peace / antiwar.
Gad, you’re a f*cking platitude machine.
Sure. Only cause i want Putin to get the fuk out and support Ukraine self defense while you support Putin invasion and annexation of Ukraine. That’s your fuk ed up way of being antiwar. What a contrast.
You defend yourself of being a platitude machine with more platitudes.
That platitude statement is BS.
Speaking for yourself?
Dude, you are ridiculous
I don’t deny I repeat myself… but you are a broken record too.
And you got nothing to come out of your fake antiwar stand.
You hate US so much you side with Putin and attack Ukraine supporters.
And as usual, and to support my claim, who are you coming after? Yes, this guy, the one that supports Ukraine.
And how many Pro Kremlin / Anti US posters have you come after? ZERO.
So.. go eat a bag.
Why the fuk do you even come to this Antiwar site if you support Putin’s war?
Phony 🤣
Yes Don, I’m not really antiwar because I don’t want Ukrainians to continue to be sacrificed for the purpose of weakening Russia. I know that sounds like a broken record and I readily admit to being guilty about wanting negotiations and saying so repeatedly. You on the other hand just continue to ignore blunt statements like “HOPE and COURAGE being the basis for the West wanting Ukraine to conduct a counteroffensive without adequate weaponry. Or how those ungrateful Ukrainians are casualty adverse and won’t do tactics that would cause massive more deaths. Or how about the latest from Blumenthal and Romney about what a wonderful investment Ukraine has been. In other words, you are ok with more war and for Ukrainians to continue dying for the West’s stated goal (and gloating) of weakening Russia and I’m not. It’s just that simple Don.
But it must because I hate the US. Or I’m a Putin lover. Or pro kremlin. Or I don’t attack others. Or I do attack others. Or I don’t upvote. Or I do upvote. Or I……
More BS from you.
Good retort. Right up there with Putin Lover, Pro Kremlin, Hate the US……..
But please do tell me what part was BS? “HOPE and COURAGE”? Casualty adverse”? Or the good investment? All uttered by US officials but ignored by you since the US can do no wrong in your eyes. So Don, why do you hate Ukrainians so much?
Vicious dogs of war lust for human flesh. I have watched this since I reached puberty and they wanted me to go to Vietnam and kill commies for Christ.
Russian and Chinese leadership is under stress from the same sort if unprovoked US attacks on innocent civilians that stretch back to atom bombs in the 1940’s, Korea in the 1950’s and Vietnam in the sixties.
There is only one thing American citizens can do to stop the cowardly ghouls in Washington who feed on human flesh. Do not lower yourself to their disgusting way of life by voting in the next federal election.
We will know how many of us there are. At that point, US attacks will turn inward and we will have done our best to save innocent civilians from American death eaters. Be brave. Resist unending US war against Earth and Life itself.
Watch for drone attacks on US soil?
Many “immigrants” are not frindlies.
Yeah, the US invasion and annexation of Ukraine will definitely bring a lot of drone attacks.
The evidence for the latest drone strike on a Russian airport suggests the drones were launched from Estonia not Ukraine. The Neo-Liberal / NATO psychopaths want WWIII.
Some people assume that the F-16s will be launched from Poland, not Ukraine. Perhaps this drone strike is a test to see how Russia deals with a minor act of war before risking something far more serious.
Far from being “massive”, these drone attacks are little pinpricks, with the unfortunate consequence that occasionally they kill an innocent civilian. The only thing they will yield is a Russian response against Ukrainian civilians, and as the russians have more Bang the casualties will be higher. Perhaps that’s the plan; Ukraine provokes Russia by killing civilians far from the front; Russia responds, killing ten times as many Ukrainian civilians, and the US gets on its “R2P” (Responsibility to Protect!) horse last ridden when we bombed Libya in order to justify entering the war?
The most cogent analysis of Ukraine, the American military, and the American economy.
Into the abyss: Colonel Douglas Macgregor tells us why the Ukraine war must end now.
You know, for the Russians that are holding on to those regions, they sure whine a lot. By now every madman would’ve done something about it.