“The damage being done is not from airplanes; it’s from missiles and artillery, which a no-fly zone would not affect,” Sen. Angus King, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told The Daily Beast
At the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky had a simple ask: Help me implement a no-fly zone over the Ukrainian skies.
But Zelensky seems to understand that Ukrainian allies are unprepared to take that step—a step that could set off a literal chain reaction leading to nuclear annihilation.”I think he realizes that it’s not going to happen,” Ivo Daalder, the former U.S. ambassador to NATO, said of a no-fly zone. “Because it crosses a major threshold of direct military engagement between NATO and or the United States.
Indeed, the speaker of the parliament of Ukraine—as well as those in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—called on the international community to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine in a joint statement just last week. “I’ve had a fair number of conversations where it was clear to me from things they said… that they would certainly prefer [a no-fly zone] but if they can't get that—and they're not certain they can—they take something less,” Herbst told The Daily Beast.
“If this is too much to ask, we offer an alternative,” Zelensky continued. ”Defense systems we need, S-300 and other similar systems,” he said, referring to anti-aircraft systems.
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