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As NATO meets, Putin "weighs" his options in Ukraine

2026-07-06 18:45:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

As NATO meets, Putin "weighs" his options in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely in his most precarious position yet. But as NATO meets in Ankara this week, is this really the moment he chooses to put the alliance to the test?

His pet war is wrecking the Russian economy — along with his poll ratings — and is also in its fifth year. As long- and medium-range bombing of Kiev continues, causing gas shortages and damage so severe that Moscow’s skyline is billowing black smoke, questions are mounting about what Putin can do to respond to Ukraine’s regained self-confidence.

Chief among them is whether he can, or will, escalate the situation in return - against Ukraine, but also its supporters in NATO.

There continues to be a lingering concern that Russia could open a new front in Europe. Poland has reportedly been warned by the United States that Moscow could attack — in a limited way, perhaps with drones or some other form of hybrid warfare, but still in a way that would have seemed inconceivable decades ago.

Over the past year, Estonia has spotted Russian men in uniform near its border. Danish airports have been shut down by unidentified drones in its airspace. Oslo has occasionally worried that the small Russian settlement of Barentsburg on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago might seek to become something bigger. Could Putin’s decision to issue Russian passports to residents of Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria be any worse?





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