The deployment of additional US military forces to Poland could lead to a “qualitative escalation” of tensions between Russia and the West and force Moscow to take retaliatory measures, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
Zakharova also said that the number of drone attacks on Russian territory from the direction of Europe and Northern European states was increasing.
Moscow has expressed concern that Ukrainian drones could be using Baltic or other countries’ airspace to launch attacks on targets inside Russia, an assertion rejected by Kyiv and the three Baltic countries.
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters on Thursday that Russia still shows “no genuine interest in peace” ahead of a meeting with EU Foreign Ministers.
“An unconditional ceasefire is a prerequisite for any kind of peace negotiations,” she said, adding that “Europe will never be a neutral mediator between Russia and Ukraine, because we are on Ukraine’s side.”
However, Kallas noted that she thinks it is “very important that we push Ukraine and Russia to talk to each other.”
