Russian drone shot down near presidential palace during Starmer’s Ukraine visit

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1. Nothing will happen as a consequence of this.

2. Die Frage ist doch ob sie bewaffnet war.

3. >Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the presidential palace in Kyiv was met with a message from Russia when a drone was blasted out of the sky above.

   >The prime minister was meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the next steps for Ukraine, on Sir Keir’s first visit to Kyiv since his election victory last July.

   >The sound of anti-aircraft gunfire was audible in the palace courtyard as air sirens warned of possible drone attacks. While air sirens blaring are a daily occurrence in Ukraine, it’s rare for drones to be shot out of the sky over the presidential palace.

   >One drone was shot down, although eyewitnesses think there were at least two drones operating and suspect they were probably surveillance drones, as the one taken out didn’t explode on impact.

   >President Zelenskyy gave his Russian enemies short shrift, saying when the drone was detected: “We will say hello to them too.”

   >An audacious move by Moscow, Sir Keir said the drone threat was “a reminder of what Ukraine is facing every day” and that the war was brought about by “Russian aggression”.

   >The PM reiterated his support for Ukraine’s eventual accession to NATO, and noted the discussion at the NATO summit in Washington last year – when its allies put Ukraine on an “irreversible path” to NATO membership.

   >However, President Zelenskyy, perhaps with an eye on the incoming Trump administration, was more forthright in his response to the question of Western allies supporting Ukraine’s membership. He told reporters the US, Slovakia, Germany and Hungary “cannot see us in NATO”.

   >President Trump has recently acknowledged Moscow’s longstanding opposition to Ukraine’s ambition to join NATO, given it would mean, as the president-elect said: “Russia has somebody right on their doorstep, and I can understand their feeling about that.”

4. I wish Putin would go the way of Icarus.

5. Putin about to Franz Ferdinand him?

6. Even the Brits who hate Starmer wouldn’t take kindly to Russia killing him. A nation that’s already overwhelmingly pro Ukraine and has a history of holding back the Russians in war wouldn’t suddenly stop helping Ukraine if this attack had been successful.

7. It sounds like this was just a surveillance drone, but if it wasn’t… it sounds like Putin was trying to start a global war a la WW1. How could England not join Ukraines fight if Russia would have assistants the British Prime Minister?

8. pity it hadn’t of got Starmer

9. This will be the archduke Ferdinand moment that solidifies WW3 which has already begun. Killing a Nato head of state with cowardly terrorist acts will be the end of Russia.

10. If Starmer were killed, this would undoubtedly lead to World War III (one could argue we’re already in it). UK would at the very least send troops to Ukraine, and probably even declare war on Russia (and NATO would follow)

11. Attacking Kyiv with the UK PM and UA PM in situ means RU just ‘officially approved’ UA’s immediate full membership into NATO.

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