Europe felt the shock wave of Putin's war again yesterday.
A missile fired from Russia's Black Sea Fleet flew over Moldovan airspace
, again highlighting the risk of the conflict spilling over Ukraine's borders into NATO territory.
In fact, the kyiv army assured that the rocket had also crossed the skies of Romania -which are the skies of the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance-, something that ended
Bucharest strongly denied.
With this, he sent an alarm that, however, is deeply justified, given the ease with which any spark of the conflict can cause a fire of uncontrollable dimensions when involving nuclear powers such as Russia and the United States.
The only incident with the potential for contagion to European territory took place last November
, when a Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft defense trying to intercept a Russian missile failed and ended up crashing in a Polish village, killing two people.
The violation of Moldovan airspace was not Putin's only provocation yesterday.
The Russian president crushed six Ukrainian regions with massive bombardments after the European tour that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenski, has led this week.
through Paris and Brussels to demand an even more powerful military shield and a political umbrella that shelters Ukraine as soon as possible within the European Union.
The war in Ukraine has become a succession of ordeals that have set in motion an escalation that is difficult to reduce between the Kremlin and the West.
Putin has ordered the Russian arms industry to intensify efforts to advance its spring offensive, which is already bleeding both enemy armies in towns such as Kremina and Bakhmut (Donetsk).
For its part, the West has responded by supplying kyiv with increasingly sophisticated weapons to sustain Moscow's push.
Ukrainian troops hold out waiting for the promised German Leopard tanks to arrive
, freed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz after a hard tug of war, while Zelensky increases the pressure to
achieve western fighters
that would take the war to a new level.
This has been made clear by Moscow, which threatens strong reprisals if these shipments occur, for which, for the moment, there is no European commitment (although the Ukrainian government speaks of "positive signals" from London, for example).
Just two weeks after one year of the invasion,
there is no end in sight for a war raised in existential terms
and that it has put Europe in check, which must now spare no resources in the defense of Ukraine as an investment in its own security.
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