Russians likely knew of Greek presence

As more time goes by, it is becoming increasingly clear that Moscow knew that at the time of the missile strike on the port of Odesa on Wednesday that Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were standing just a few hundred meters away.

For his part, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev,  said directly, via his Telegram channel, that if Moscow chose to carry out a strike against the delegation accompanying Zelensky, it would succeed.

"If it was a goal, we would have achieved it," Medvedev said of Zelenskyy, without, however, making any reference to the almost simultaneous presence of Mitsotakis.

Apart from Medvedev's statement, which suggests Moscow's prior knowledge of Mitsotakis' visit to Odesa, a number of other elements converge.

First and foremost, while...