Ukrainian opposition MP Alyona Shkrum affirms on Wednesday November 16 on franceinfo that the fall of a Russian-made missile in Poland on Tuesday “is not an accident but a way to test NATO”. She is convinced that the missile was sent by Russia.
“I think it’s not an accident but a way to test NATO, to test European countries, to test the countries of the world, as Russia has always done with Ukraine”, she explains. According Alyona Shkrum, Vladimir Putin “lied a lot”. “I think it’s the same now with European countries and NATO, she continues. He is testing the answers and the possibility of where he can go.”
The president of the France-Ukraine friendship group in the Ukrainian parliament believes that the situation resembles past strategies of the Kremlin. “Unfortunately, I’ve seen this many times since 2014, she remembers. When the Russians annexed Crimea, they said that it was not them, that there were no Russian soldiers in the Donbass or in Crimea, that it was a resistance of the Ukrainian people, completely crazy things . Vladimir Putin tested the security, our defenses, and then he confirmed that it was Russian.”
LIVE – Two missiles hit Poland ➡️ “I have the information that it is a Russian missile. I think it is not a fault, an accident, but a way to test NATO, European countries ”, says Alyona Shkrum, Ukrainian opposition MP. pic.twitter.com/pIVF3mKf1u
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While US President Joe Biden believes he is “unlikely” that the missile was launched from Russia, Alyona Shkrum answers that “Russia is the country that launched 100 missiles on Tuesday evening, in four hours. It is more likely for me that it is a missile that comes from Russia, because there were 100 missiles in the whole territory of Russia. ‘Ukraine. (…) There is the possibility that one of his missiles went to Poland, to any country.”
“Even if it’s a fault, even if it’s part of a Russian missile that we tried to stop, she concedesit is always Russia that is the aggressor, it is always Russia that is waging this war.”