Donald Tusk warned of a possible escalation of tensions in Eastern Europe after drone incidents in Romania and assured that Poland and the European Union must prepare for more complex scenarios.
While Vladimir Putin sought to project economic stability before international partners and investors, Ukraine launched an offensive against strategic facilities in St. Petersburg. For analyst Andrés Gómez de la Torre, the objective was to combine the military impact with a political and psychological message: to show that “the war can even reach the spaces that the Kremlin uses to exhibit strength and normality.”