Russia attacks Ukrainian capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles on eve of critical NATO summit
European security questions expose tensions between alliance obligations and American interests.
Timing like that isn't an accident. Putin lobs ballistic missiles into Kyiv the night before NATO leaders sit down together, and the message is pretty easy to read: he doesn't fear the alliance, he's testing it. That's not a coincidence you can wave away as "just the war continuing.
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By Victoria Butenko, Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under attack by Russian ballistic missiles early Monday morning, the country’s air force said, on the eve of a critical NATO summit in Turkey that US President Donald Trump plans to attend.
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Timing like that isn't an accident. Putin lobs ballistic missiles into Kyiv the night before NATO leaders sit down together, and the message is pretty easy to read: he doesn't fear the alliance, he's testing it. That's not a coincidence you can wave away as "just the war continuing."
This is the part that should focus everyone's mind in Turkey. You can hold summits, issue statements, pose for the group photo. None of it changes the fact that a man in Moscow is willing to strike a European capital on cue, timed for maximum diplomatic embarrassment. If the response out of that summit is another round of careful language and no real shift in strategy, Putin gets exactly the answer he was fishing for.
America's interest here isn't abstract solidarity, it's making sure adversaries don't learn that they can shrug off Western meetings by blowing something up beforehand. Whatever comes out of this summit needs to reflect that Kyiv just took missiles, not that everyone politely ignored it and moved to the next agenda item.
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