Western officials worry that if a Russian missile struck NATO territory — several near Lviv have come close — it could trigger an escalation
In the past 24 hours, Russian missiles landed near Lviv, the city in western Ukraine that has been a gathering point for people fleeing the conflict. At the weekend Russia hit a military facility in the region about 22 miles from Poland and last week a reconnaissance drone darted through several eastern European countries before crashing in the Croatian capital Zagreb.
Western officials are worried that a more serious episode — if say a Russian missile struck NATO territory — could trigger an escalation and bring them into conflict with Russia. 109 empty strollers are placed outside the Lviv city council during an action to highlight the number of children killed in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, on March 18, in Lviv, Ukraine.Still, convoys of weapons that the U.S. and its NATO allies ship to Ukraine are “legitimate targets” for Russia’s military, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said March 12 on state television, calling the deliveries a “dangerous move.
Most of the countries neighboring Ukraine are members of NATO, which binds nations to defend each other in the event of an attack. So one miscalculation from the Russian side could drag all 30 allies into the conflict, and most significantly the U.S.Article contentThe allies are deploying surveillance planes and new so-called Patriot batteries as part of the beefed up presence on its eastern borders.
The U.S. set up a similar mechanism in Syria to avoid conflict with Russian forces. In August 2020, after reports of a collision with Russian vehicles, the Pentagon said U.S. troops had been injured as a result of aggressive Russian behavior that breached that arrangement and commended their personnel on the ground for deescalating the encounter through restraint.During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Soviet submarine came close to launching a nuclear missile at the U.S. When the U.S.
The probe into the drone episode is ongoing, but “we all presume it was accidental,” Ollongren said Wednesday. The Russian air attack near the Polish border targeted a military facility in Ukraine “so in that way, it was not unexpected.”Article content
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