Russia’s messages with missiles tell West to back off

The latest in horror ectenia In Ukraine, I came this week as Russian firepower spilled onto civilians in a bustling shopping center far from the front lines of the fifth month of the war.

It seems that the timing was not a coincidence.

While much of the frictional war in eastern Ukraine is hidden from sight, the atrocities of Russian missiles strike the malls in the central city of Kremenchuk and the homes of the capital Kieu, giving a panoramic view of the world, especially the west. increase. Leaders gathered for a trio of summits in Europe.

The attack from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin when the West tried to arm Ukraine with more effective weapons to strengthen Ukraine’s resistance and guide Ukraine on the road to accession to the European Union. Was it a message?

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko made the same proposal when the missile attacked the capital on June 26, three days after EU leaders unanimously agreed to make Ukraine a candidate for membership.

It was a “probably symbolic attack,” he said, with groups of seven major economies, and NATO leaders, meeting Moscow and preparing to put more pressure on them. At least six people were killed in a Kyiv strike that struck the mansion.

Former U.S. Army commander in Europe and retired Vice Admiral Ben Hodges further linked the attack with the conference. “Russians are humiliating Western leaders,” he said.

Russia launched missiles in a crowded shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk in central Ukraine when G7 leaders met in Germany to discuss further support for Ukraine at an annual summit the day after the Kyiv attack, at least 19 Killed a person.

The timing of both attacks seems to be juxtaposed with the European meeting of Ukrainian supporters Joe Biden of the United States, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Olav Schortz of Germany, Emmanuel Macron of France. It looked like.

Contrary to the evidence, Putin and his officials have denied that Russia has struck a residential area. Putin denied that Russian troops had targeted the Kremenchuk shopping district and said they were directed to a nearby arsenal. However, Ukrainian officials and witnesses said the missiles attacked the mall directly.

It was hardly the first time that an explosion of violence was widely seen as a sign of Moscow’s discomfort. In late April, a Russian missile attacked Kieu in just one hour after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a press conference.

“This speaks a lot about Russia’s true attitude towards the global system,” Zelensky said at the time. The mayor of Kyiv called Putin’s attack method the “middle finger.”

The Russian president recently warned that if the West supplied Ukraine with weapons that could reach Russia, Moscow would attack previously escaped targets. When Kieu gets a long-range rocket, Russia “draws the right conclusions and uses the destructive measures we have abundantly,” Putin said.

Russia bombed a residential area in a coastal town near Odesa on Friday, the day after Ukraine drew attention from Snake Island near the Black Sea port city of Odesa, after calling it a barrage of artillery and missile attacks. At least 21 people, including 2 children.

Russia’s message can be dull and catastrophic, but the Ukrainian signal under Zelensky seeks to amplify Moscow’s cruelty to a world that is at risk of being fed up with war every day. Focuses on every day.

As interest diminishes, so does the collaborative support seen at world summits. And along with that, there is an urgent need to deliver heavier weapons that Ukraine longs for.

Zelenskyy tends to combine accusations and denials for more help to remind us that Europe as a whole is ultimately at stake.

He described the Mohr attack as “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history.”

For all of Ukraine’s indisputable suffering, it was a bold statement of exaggeration in the context of radical attacks with mass deaths in Paris, Nice, Brussels, Madrid and London in this century alone.

In the case of Zelenskyy and Ukraine, the underlying demand cannot be fully repeated. Russia will offer heavier weapons faster, perhaps before making irreversible profits in the eastern industrial area of ​​Donbus, where street battles continue.

In his nightly public speech, Zelenskyy captures the traumatic sacrifices of everyday life in Ukraine and appeals to the wider world far beyond world leaders.

This week he accused Russia of interfering with “people trying to lead a normal life.”

Images of smoking wreckage in shopping malls said the rest.