On a visit to Chişinău, the Moldovan capital which has been swamped by Ukrainian refugees, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said he recognized the whole world has a stake in what’s happening in Ukraine. “The only way to implement a no-fly zone is to send NATO planes - fighter planes - into Ukrainian airspace, and then impose that no-fly zone by shooting down Russian planes,” Stoltenberg said following a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. “If we did that, we’ll end up with something that could end in a full-fledged war in Europe involving many more countries and causing much more human suffering.” On Friday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reiterated the alliance’s wish to avoid conflict and unwillingness to impose a no-fly zone.

This is just getting deeper and deeper, every day.” “As horrible as that was,” the official said, “this is worse, with the potential of getting a real European war, or a world war very quickly. The official said the war in Ukraine was far more dangerous than anything Europe has seen since the end of World War II, including the Balkan wars of the 1990s. allies said analysts in Washington had reached a terrifying conclusion: “Russia is ready to use a thermonuclear bomb in Ukraine,” the official said. One European official privy to intelligence briefings provided to U.S. “But let me be clear: Our forces are not engaged and will not engage in the conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine. Our forces are not going to Europe to fight Ukraine but to defend our NATO allies in the event that Putin decides to keep moving west.” “We’ll continue to aid the Ukrainian people as they defend their country and help ease their suffering,” he said. In his State of the Union speech this week, Biden described the war as Ukraine’s fight and said Washington would do what it could to help.

President Joe Biden has been adamant about American forces not getting involved in the fighting. An Estonian cargo ship sunk off the coast of Odesa, apparently after hitting a mine. Already, on Wednesday Russian planes violated Swedish air space multiple times. The shelling and a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the early hours of Friday morning provided yet another frightening example of the type of emergency scenario that could ensnare a broader international coalition in Putin’s war: to urgently prevent a global catastrophe.īut other more mundane scenarios abound. “Anything that we do that results in killing Russians puts us into World War III.” “The enforcement of a no-fly zone means killing Russians,” the analyst said. “Or the outcry against the crimes against humanity is so strong that we feel compelled to take what we think is a limited and judicious action,” the analyst said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. That is not impossible and then it very quickly escalates. The Russian President also accused the UK and US of a gratitude, after explaining he had ordered Russian forces to pull back from near Ukraine's borders after their present had generated fears in the West of a new conflict.“One is a mistake,” said a Washington-based analyst whose work is partly financed by the U.S. He added: 'The meeting in Geneva had just happened, so why was this provocation needed, what was its goal? To underscore that those people (the Americans and British) do not respect Crimeans' choice to join the Russian Federation,' Mr Putin went onto further lash out at the US, with the tense standoff taking place just days after he met President Joe Biden in Geneva.

He said: 'It was obvious that the destroyer entered (the waters near Crimea) pursuing, first of all, military goals, trying to use the spy plane to see how our forces would stop such provocations, to see what is activated and where, how things work and where everything is located.'

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