Six months after the Russian invasion, the battle is slowed down and will spiral uncontrolled at any second in the direction of a worldwide explosion.
The automotive bombing that value the lifetime of 29-year-old journalist Daria Dugina on the night time of Saturday 20 to Sunday 21 August 2022 is proof of Kiev’s, and above all of the West’s, want to strike at Vladimir Putin’s rapid entourage.
Daria Dugina was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a Russian ideologist near the grasp of the Kremlin, typically introduced as “Putin’s mind”. He was the topic of each American and European Union sanctions for advocating Russian annexation of Russian-speaking territories. In fact, he was the one who was focused by this assault however, on the final second, it was his daughter Daria who took the wheel alone.
If the assault has not been claimed, all eyes are on Kiev. And it’s troublesome to see Putin not reacting to such against the law.
Retaliation anticipated
Throughout the identical night time of Saturday to Sunday, one other assault focused this time a senior official of the Ukrainian safety service (SBU). Oleksandre Nakonetchny was shot useless at his dwelling in Kropyvnytsky, in central Ukraine. In response to a neighborhood politician it might be a suicide. Others say it was a settling of scores.
We do not forget that Volodymyr Zelensky had dismissed, in mid-July 2022, the Lawyer Normal Iryna Venediktova and the top of the safety providers of the nation (SBU) Ivan Bakanov, due to “suspicions of treason of a few of their subordinates for the good thing about the Russians.
In any case, these two occasions, shut in time, affirm the renewed pressure between Russia on the one hand and Ukraine and the West on the opposite.
Volodymyr Zelensky fears imminent reprisals. In a televised assertion, he “warns” towards the chance of Russian provocations. “Russia might do one thing notably disgusting and merciless,” says the Ukrainian president. When? Most likely subsequent week, when Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day on August 24.
Danger of nuclear accident
Within the meantime, pressure is rising across the Zaporizhia nuclear energy plant, with Kiev and Moscow accusing one another of eager to bomb the location and provoke a big disaster.
It’s on this very delicate context that Russia introduced, on Thursday 18 August 2022, the deployment of three MIG-31 plane armed with Kinja hypersonic missiles within the Kaliningrad area. These three plane will type a 24-hour operational fight unit, in response to the Russian Minister of Defence.
Reasonably than calm the scenario, Washington introduced a brand new navy support package deal of 775 million {dollars} for Kiev, along with the 1 billion {dollars} launched on 8 August 2022. With the dispatch of Himars missiles, of formidable precision, drones, cellular cannons, weapons and ammunition suitable with these despatched by NATO international locations. As well as, in fact, there are the “advisors” despatched to assist the Ukrainian troops use these subtle weapons.
NATO international locations are to not be outdone, notably France, which is sending weapons to Kiev in addition to males stationed in Romania to coach Ukrainian troopers.
The scenario is subsequently explosive. A lot in order that on Sunday 21 August, Joe Biden for america, Emmanuel Macron for France, Olaf Scholz for Germany and Boris Johnson for the UK signed a joint assertion calling for “restraint” across the Zaporizhia energy plant. They referred to as for the speedy dispatch of a world atomic vitality inspection mission (IAEA).
Six months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict is much from over. And the worst can occur.
🔴 Zelensky met en garde contre le risque accru de «cruelles» provocations russes
La Russie pourrait «faire quelque selected de particulièrement dégoûtant» et «merciless» la semaine prochaine en Ukraine selon le président ukrainien. https://t.co/CUmnqtbxXZ
— Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) August 21, 2022
