The Russia issue a warning to Emmanuel Macron while the tension between the Federation and the allied bloc of Kiev continues to rise as the weeks go by. This time he was the director of the Russian Foreign Secret Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkinto return to the words of the head ofElysiumwhich did not rule out the direct use of European soldiers in the war in Ukraine: Mosca is aware of the fact that France “is preparing a military contingent of 2 thousand men” to be sent to Ukraine. If French troops arrived in the country, he warned, however, they would become “a legitimate priority objective for attacks by the Russian armed forces.”
Clear words on the same day in which the President of the EU Council, Charles Micheland the High Representative for Foreign Policy of Brussels, Joseph Borrellhave definitively abandoned their more moderate positions and embraced the line von der Leyen. In fact, the former Belgian prime minister declared that “if we want peace, we must prepare for war“, alluding to the need to continue with the strategy of rearm and the increase in supplies to Kievthe day after the agreement in the EU Council to increase the financial ceiling of the European Peace Fund (EPF) by 5 billion euros at current prices and to allocate this integration to Ukraine, establishing a specific Assistance Fund (UAF). Added to this are the revelations from a European source according to which in EU Council these days there could be “a debate” on the possibility of ground troops in Ukraine, although “I don’t expect there to be a common message from the leaders”.
On the battlefield, the Russian advance in Donbass it is slow but gradual. And it doesn’t seem to stop. In the last hours the army of Vladimir Putinwho emerged triumphant from the last presidential elections, announced the conquest of the small village of Orlovkanear Avdiivkawhile on the border, after repeated Ukrainian attacks on Federation territory, the Russian armed forces claim to have carried out an air attack against groups of “saboteurs” close to the Russian regions of Kursk e Belgorod and to have “destroyed” what they define as “concentrations of enemy personnel and equipment”. Putin himself ordered the agency’s employees “not to forget the traitors who joined Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups. Don’t forget who they are, identify them by name. We will punish them without prescriptionwherever they are.” The military leaders, however, are less satisfied with what is happening to the fleet Black Seathe subject of several attacks by Ukrainian drones, so much so that the removal of the Navy commander was confirmed, Nikolai Yevmenov.
Replacing Yevmenov will be the admiral Alexander Moiseevintroduced today as the new acting commander during a ceremony at a submarine base in Kronstadtaccording to what the Tass. Born in Kaliningrad on April 16, 1962, Moiseev for almost 30 years served on board of nuclear submarines. In 2011 he was awarded the title Hero of Russia. Seven years later he was appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet and subsequently commander of the Northern Fleet.
However, the problems at the land border have not been eliminated and the situation is particularly critical in the Belgorod region, which has been the subject of Ukrainian attacks for many months now. Precisely this situation of insecurity convinced the Russian authorities to “temporarily” transfer 9 thousand minors who “regularly come under fire from the armed forces” of Kiev. This was announced by the governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkovexplaining that the minors will be relocated to other regions of Russia as 16 people were killed and 98 injured in Ukrainian bombing last week.