You know. .. I was wondering about this just the other day.
When Russia declared it was going to initiate a, "Special Military Operation," in Ukraine. .. If I were Zelenskyy, I would have went to the Ukrainian legislature and requested a declaration of war, or how ever their system does that . . but I did not hear of Ukraine declaring war on Russia?
What is up with that?
How can the Ukraine military forces strike Russia, with out a declaration of war?
Ukraine Strikes Inside Russian Territory, Russians Say
"KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian attack helicopters executed a low-flying predawn raid on Russian territory, a Russian official said, eluding air defenses to strike an oil depot as peace talks over the war were set to get under way.
Security-camera footage released by Russian state-owned media channel RIA Novosti appeared to show several missiles firing at the depot and setting off explosions. Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional governor of Belgorod, where the attack took place, wrote on social media that two Ukrainian helicopters carried out the operation while flying at low altitude.
Belgorod is located close to the Ukrainian border with Russia and north of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Ukrainian officials didn’t immediately take responsibility for the attack. “I can neither confirm nor reject the claim that Ukraine was involved in this simply because I do not possess all the military information,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
“This is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for the continuation of negotiations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday, referring to the strike.
If confirmed, the Belgorod raid would be Kyiv’s second helicopter operation in as many days, following an attempt to penetrate Russian air defenses around the besieged city of Mariupol, along Ukraine’s Azov Sea coast.
Ukraine flew two Mi-8 transport helicopters on a mission to evacuate members of the Azov battalion that has allowed the city to remain in Ukrainian control despite near-constant Russian bombardment of civilian sites.. . . ."