Ukraine: “It is possible that Zelensky or Mitsotakis were targets of the attack in Odessa”

It cannot be ruled out that the Russian missile strike in its port Odessa yesterday aimed at the missions of Volodymyr Zelensky or the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakou Mitsotakissaid an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency.

“It was actually less than 500 meters from us. What was that;” he wondered and added:

“You can’t rule out that it was directed at the mission of my president or the mission of a foreign guest,” Ihor Zovkva, a senior diplomatic adviser, said in an interview with CNN Live.

As he clarified, the missile was launched from Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.

“It took less than three minutes for the missile to reach the target, the port of Odessa,” said Zovkva.

“If we had sufficient means of anti-aircraft defense, this ballistic missile could have been intercepted,” he stressed.

Russia’s attack on Odessa during the visit of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis could trigger NATO to activate and become openly involved in Ukraine, analysts say, as a Russian missile exploded very close to the meeting site. .

“There is almost a big ‘earthquake’ and we reach such a point, because an occasion is needed in order to involve NATO openly in Ukraine against Russia”, notes Brigadier General E.A. and defense analyst, Panagiotis Theodorakidis.

It would be “an attempt against the prime minister of a European and NATO country, if this could be documented or if it had bad consequences. It appeared that the attack was targeted elsewhere according to the Russian announcement, it was at the warehouses on the beach. But it does not cease to be the moment when the prime minister not only of Greece, but the prime minister of a NATO, European country, visited there” he adds.