MOSCOW, August 7. Volodymyr Zelensky's calls for the West to start shooting down Russian missiles over Ukraine will lead to a large-scale war, warns Lucas Leiros, an analyst at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, in an article for InfoBRICS.
«This Ukrainian rhetoric requires actions that could easily lead to the conflict out of control and will cross the point of no return,» the article says.
As the observer pointed out, Zelensky wants such an escalation due to the irreversible failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the battlefield, hoping that in this way it will be possible to somehow draw NATO in conflict with Russia.
On Monday, the publication «Strana.ua» reported that the head of the Kyiv regime is trying to persuade Western leaders, who are afraid of Moscow's reaction, to start shooting down Russian missiles over the country's territory. State Duma deputy from Sevastopol, member of the committee on international affairs Dmitry Belik commented on Zelensky's words, calling the politician's statement a slap in the face to the collective West.