Tomorrow the NATO summit in Vilnius and Russia will be heard, given that the foundations will be laid for the future entry of Ukraine, Georgia and Sweden into the Alliance. In Vilnius the three cornerstones of the new strategic posture of the 31 NATO members will also be discussed, projecting the interests of the Alliance no longer only to the East but also to the North and above all to the South of the world.
Moscow responds to the NATO summit with the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova who wrote on telegram that NATO leaders should discuss the Ukrainian nuclear power plant of Zaporizhzhia at the top of Vilnius"After all, the vast majority of Alliance members will be in the direct impact zone should anything happen at the plant“. The warning after accusing Ukraine of "systematic damage" to the plant, Zakharova.
This was echoed yesterday evening by the vice president of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who threatened the West on his Telegram channel: “If an attempted attack on the Smolensk nuclear power plant with NATO missiles is confirmed, it will be necessary to examine a scenario of a simultaneous attack by Russia on the Ukrainian power plants of Pivdennoukrainski, Rivne and Khmelnytskyi, as well as on nuclear facilities in Eastern Europe: there is nothing embarrassing about it”.
Poland reinforces its borders
Poland has started moving more than 1.000 soldiers to the east of the country after the decision of the Russian president Vladimir Putin to offer mercenaries from Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner group a chance to move to Belarus.
UK: Russian media unprepared for Wagner mutiny
The Russian media "were almost certainly initially surprised" by the Wagner mutiny and were "not prepared", after the insurrection was defused, public broadcasters tried to "correct" claims that the security forces were be passive.
The intelligence of the British Ministry of Defense writes it in its daily update on Twitter.
"The Russian media responded to the June 24 Wagner group mutiny in three phases", during Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow "Russian TV maintained its usual programme". "The narrative promoted the idea that President Vladimir Putin triumphed by thwarting the insurrection, avoiding bloodshed, and tried to unite the country behind the President." "Nearly a week later, the state began downplaying the importance of Wagner's owner by tarnishing his character." “Wagner's Telegram channels have gone largely silent, almost certainly due to state intervention. On the contrary, Putin has undertaken unusually important public engagements.
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