I also think that Russia knows this but for geopolitical reasons they still want to maintain this shared pretense that NATO is not directly launching attacks on Russia.

Whats the point of that? Wouldn’t they want publicly highlight that NATO countries are directly participating.

Ya that route was unbelievable. But the admission that NATO airspace was used is key. Although it’s a bit strange that they still chose to lie for no benefit.

Why were NATO jets scrambled? Surely they were informed ahead of time. So its just theater serving to maintaining the “Defensive” NATO facade and gaslight the Baltic’s into fearing of Russian drone strikes. Like in the past when “Russian drone/missile lands in Poland” or whatever turns out to be Ukrainian.

This isn’t new but its on a new scale. Previously it has been more or less denied that Ukraine was allowed to use NATO airspace to strike Russia. This is a large escalation and step toward broader conflict. How will Russia respond?

Can’t believe westerners have just glossed over the repeated drone strikes on the dormitory in Luhansk that killed 21 people. Western media did their best by calling it “temporarily Russian occupied territory”. Lol

Last time I checked targeting the civilians of the territory that’s supposedly " temporarily occupied" doesn’t sound like its either temporary, or “occupied”. Ain’t no way Ukraine is getting Luhansk back. Oh and AFTER the attack the teachers from the college were put on Myrotvorets which is essentially a kill list where people are doxxed.

But people will still call Russia the terrorists. Peak projection. As you said they are getting desperate.

Edit Reading the Wikipedia is disgusting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Starobilsk_strike

In the first paragraph: “a drone hit a student dormitory” but within the same article they acknowledged that it was infact 16 drones.

Ukraine becoming increasingly Israeli, wait no American day by day.

Unsurprising no western media has covered this. Reddit calling this a false flag by Russia. 😂

Looks like Ukraine is getting desperate to expand the war. They know they can’t win at the going rate, probably getting low on people to bussify. Not that expanding the front to Belarus makes much sense either.