The governor of the Russian region of Pskov, Mikhail Vedernikov, assured this Sunday that NATO drones tried to cross the border into Russian territory, which borders Latvia and Estonia, before the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
“We never gave wide coverage to this, but there were attempts by military unmanned aerial vehicles and other aircraft to illegally cross the border,” he denounced, quoted by the Russian news agency TASS.
Vedernikov’s remarks were made at the 3rd International Media Forum in Pskov, after sharing the video on his channel on the Telegram messaging platform.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data. of the UN, which catalogs this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the international community at large, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing Russia from the political point of view and economic sanctions.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 6,595 dead civilians and 10,189 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
