{"id":56721,"date":"2026-04-17T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56721"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:27:51","slug":"ukraines-long-range-strikes-prompt-new-russian-threat-against-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56721","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s long-range strikes prompt new Russian threat against Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Al Jazeera: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has damaged or destroyed so much Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the past two weeks that it has prompted Russia to issue a warning to European countries and industries against funding its long-range drone production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warning came after Ukraine reached a new series of agreements with European defence companies this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe consider this decision to be a deliberate step leading to a sharp escalation of the military and political situation on the entire European continent and creeping transformation of these countries into a strategic rear for Ukraine,\u201d said a statement from the Russian defence ministry on Wednesday this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia warned of \u201cunpredictable consequences\u201d and said that \u201cthe moves of European leaders are increasingly dragging these countries into the war with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It published a list of addresses of European companies involved in joint weapons production with Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dmitry Medvedev<\/a>, a former president of Russia and deputy head of its National Security Council, later clarified that this amounted to \u201ca list of potential targets for the Russian armed forces\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previous day, Germany agreed to invest 300 million euros ($355m) in Ukraine\u2019s long-range strike capability and would separately invest in 5,000 mid-range attack drones to be used against Russian battlefield supply lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norway also signed an agreement with Ukraine that will lead to joint production of drones, and donated 560 million euros ($661.5m) to support the Ukrainian front lines with drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Netherlands announced 248 million euros ($293m) in drone support, and Belgium pledged 85 million euros ($100m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera: Ukraine has damaged or destroyed so much Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the past two weeks that it has prompted Russia to issue a warning to European countries and industries against funding its long-range drone production. The warning came after Ukraine reached a new series of agreements with European defence companies this week. \u201cWe consider this decision to be a deliberate step leading to a sharp escalation of the military and political situation on the entire European continent and creeping transformation of these countries into a strategic rear for Ukraine,\u201d said a statement from the Russian defence… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56723,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56721\/revisions\/56723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}