# Zelensky’s ‘aerial blackmail’ tantamount to attempt to sow chaos — Russian MFA

https://mins.news/en/item/51090

- TASS, 2026-09-09 09:56 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2184711

> Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Volodymyr Zelensky’s warnings that possible Ukrainian drone attacks could make Russian airspace unsafe for civilian aircraft amounted to open blackmail and an attempt to sow chaos. She accused the West of becoming a direct accomplice to planned terrorist attacks by failing to respond.

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