Eurofighters aircraft
of the Italian Air Force
deployed in the 4th. In the last few hours, the Task Force carried out
a double interception of Russian aircraft
over the Baltic Sea, which aroused tension in Europe, after Moscow's massive air attack on electrical installations in Ukraine.
The Italian fighters responded to
alarms launched from the NATO command center
based in Uedem (Germany), triggered on Friday and Saturday morning by
an unidentified aircraft
flying over the international waters of the Baltic.
Once the planes were identified, the Italian F-2000s returned to the Polish base of Malbork, the base where these aircraft operate as part of the 4th Wing Task Force and from which all matters of the NATO European Air Police to the north are handled. of the Alps.
These episodes add to
a crescendo of war tensions
in the northeastern region of Europe.
Ukraine denounced on Friday that the previous night Russia launched a massive attack with more than 60 drones and missiles on its territory. The Russian attack revived fears of a war invasion by NATO member Poland, which sent its fighter jets into the air in an airspace surveillance and security activity.
But not only Poland is on the front line: in Romania, "drone fragments"
were found
on a farm near the Danube after the Russian attacks.
Already last December, an unmanned aerial vehicle crashed in an uninhabited area of Romania after a Russian attack on Ukrainian river ports. Even before that, in September, other drone remains were also found in the border area.
"War is real"
"War is no longer a concept of the past, it is real
," was the alarm raised by the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, in an interview with a series of international newspapers.
"The most worrying thing is that
any scenario is possible
. I know it seems devastating, especially for the youngest, but
we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era
. It is the pre-war era," Tusk stated bluntly, worried. because Europe "still has a long way to go" to strengthen its defense and, therefore,
is not at all prepared to face the
looming threat.
Tusk's words are indicative of a growing general alarm on the continent about Vladimir Putin's true intentions regarding Ukraine and beyond.
The war is not going as Kiev wants, which incessantly asks for Patriot, ammunition, missiles and planes to
defend itself from the Russian advance
, which in five months has conquered 500 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory, according to the American think tank Institute for the Study of War ( ISW, by its initials in English)
The figures give the measure of an unequal war, according to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian forces, Oleksandr Syrsky.
In recent days, missiles have fallen on kyiv again. Photo: EFE
"A few days ago, the enemy's advantage in terms of ammunition fired was approximately six to one," the Ukrainian soldier admitted in an interview, but assured that although the situation on the front is difficult, the army will mobilize fewer people than the 500,000 initially proposed by Zelensky.
If the situation on the front remains complicated - and kyiv expects a new Russian offensive between May and June - things are not going better in the rest of the country. A rain of attacks has once again hit energy infrastructures in this third spring of war.
The bombing of Moscow with dozens of drones and missiles has "damaged thermal and hydroelectric power plants" in central and western Ukraine. According to Zelensky, among the targets were "the Kaniv and Dniester hydroelectric power plants," because "the terrorist country wants a repeat of the ecological disaster in the Kherson region, but now not only Ukraine is threatened, but also Moldova."
As a result of the attacks, the national operator Ukrenergo was forced to implement planned emergency blackouts in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporiyia and Kirovograd regions.
With information from ANSA
DP