The Italian Air Force has intercepted Russian planes over the Baltic Sea and tension is growing in Europe

Planes Eurofighter of the Italian Air Force deployed in the 4th. The Wing Task Force carried out in the last few hours a double interception by Russian planes over the Baltic Sea, which has raised tensions in Europe, following Moscow’s massive airstrike on electricity plants in Ukraine.

The Italian fighters responded alarms launched from the NATO command center based in Uedem (Germany), shot on Friday and Saturday morning by an unidentified aircraft which flew 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 Northern European NATO Air Police are managed. of the Alps.

These episodes add up a crescendo of war tensions in the north-eastern region of Europe.

Ukraine reported on Friday that Russia launched a massive attack with more than 60 drones and missiles on its territory the night before. The Russian attack revived fears of a wartime invasion by NATO member Poland, which sent its fighter planes into the air in an airspace surveillance and security exercise.

But not only Poland is on the front line: in Romania they met “drone fragments” on a farm near the Danube after Russian attacks.

Already last December, an unmanned aircraft crashed in an uninhabited area of ​​Romania after a Russian attack on Ukrainian river ports. Even earlier, in September, other remains of drones had also been 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 this any scenario is possible. I know it sounds devastating, especially for younger people, but we must mentally get used to the arrival of a new era. “We are in the pre-war era,” Tusk stated bluntly, concerned that Europe “still has a long way to go” to strengthen its defense and, therefore, he is not at all prepared to face the threat what’s happening now.

Tusk’s words are indicative of growing general alarm on the continent about Vladimir Putin’s true intentions towards Ukraine and beyond.

The war is not going the way Kiev wants, which incessantly demands Patriot, ammunition, missiles and planes from defend against the Russian advancewhich in five months conquered 500 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory, according to the American think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

The figures give the measure of an unequal war, according to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian forces Oleksandr Syrsky.

“A few days ago, the enemy’s advantage in terms of fired ammunition was about six to one,” the Ukrainian soldier admitted in an interview, but assured that, despite the difficult situation on the front, the army will mobilize fewer people of the 500,000 initially proposed by Zelenskyj.

If the situation on the front remains complicated – and Kiev expects a new Russian offensive between May and June – things are no better in the rest of the country. A hail 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 Zelenskyj, 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 “.

Following the attacks, the national operator Ukrenergo was forced to implement planned emergency blackouts in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporiyia and Kirovograd regions.