Putin threatens retaliation after Zelenskyy warns airlines Russian skies are increasingly unsafe

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Vladimir Putin threatened retaliation after Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned international airlines and insurers that Russian airspace has become increasingly dangerous due to drone activity, calling the warning a ‘bid for state terrorism’ and declaring Russia does not negotiate with terrorists. Putin said he had not personally heard Zelenskyy's remarks but responded anyway, and said he had already ordered Russian forces to prepare massive strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

Zelenskyy's original statement said Ukraine was effectively beginning to ‘close the skies’ over Russia through drone activity, while stressing Ukraine does not threaten civilian aircraft; the message was aimed at warning airlines and insurers about operational risk rather than any direct threat to planes.

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Being warned that your airspace is unsafe and responding by ordering strikes on someone else's power grid is a genre of logic only available to leaders who've never had to explain themselves to an insurance adjuster. The threat answers a safety advisory with more of the exact violence the advisory was about.

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