By Free Republic | Created at 2025-02-01 11:42:42 | Updated at 2025-02-01 14:42:51
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NATO fighter planes scrambled after Putin's newest drone attack risks WW3
Mirror UK ^ | 2/1/2025 | Will Stewart, Susie Beever
Posted on 02/01/2025 3:34:10 AM PST by marcusmaximus
NATO fighter planes were scrambled today amid a brutal Russian missile and military drone onslaught on civilian, energy and military sites in Ukraine.
Harrowing footage showed residents in Poltava screaming after a strike destroyed ordinary apartment blocks triggering fires amid the debris of smashed buildings. The wave of attacks by Vladimir Putin - which led to power cuts in multiple regions - came soon after Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office that his administration was actively talking to Moscow.
“We are having very serious discussions about that war, trying to get it ended,” said the US president. On whether he had spoken directly to Putin, Trump said: “I don’t want to say that.”
The massive strikes - which killed at least four and led to multiple injuries - may be a sign that Putin has no intention of ending his attempt to crush Ukraine. He used strategic nuclear-capable bomber aircraft including Tu-95s and Tu-22s in the attacks, unleashing Kh-22 missiles among others.
The scale of the blitzkrieg led NATO to scramble Polish and allied warplanes on the alliance’s eastern front. Warsaw’s operation command said: “Attention, due to the attack of the Russian Federation performing strikes on facilities located, among others, in the west of Ukraine, the operation of Polish and allied
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: putin; russia
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To: marcusmaximus
Trump has his way of negotiating and Putin has his.
2 posted on 02/01/2025 3:37:21 AM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
To: marcusmaximus
Why would NATO scramble their aircraft for an attack by the Ruskies in the central northeastern part of the Ukraine?
3 posted on 02/01/2025 3:42:39 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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