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AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
1. did Ukraine request it? I will only trust it's needed if Zelensky asks for it
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 04:38 PM
Feb 2022

cause there might be downsides.

 

Tomconroy

(7,611 posts)
3. Yes.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 06:52 PM
Feb 2022

Zelensky requests no-fly zone to help Ukraine 'defeat the aggressor'
President Zelensky and President Biden.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
BRIGID KENNEDY
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a statement on Monday implored President Biden and NATO to impose a no-fly zone over "significant parts" of Ukraine, claiming his country "can beat the aggressor" if Western powers "do their part," the adviser-provided statement reads, per Axios.

"If the West does this, Ukraine will defeat the aggressor with much less blood," Zelensky wrote.

"The sanctions are heading in the right direction. In addition to disconnecting the Russian Central Bank from SWIFT and providing more Stingers and anti-tank weapons, we need the West to impose a no-fly zone over significant parts of Ukraine," he added, per Axios. "Ukraine can beat the aggressor. We are proving this to the world. But our allies must also do their part."

https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1010714/zelensky-requests-no-fly-zone-to-help-ukraine-defeat-the-aggressor

2naSalit

(86,775 posts)
2. Bad idea...
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 06:46 PM
Feb 2022

Because that can only be done when we are officially at war with Russia, and that is not going to happen. All the countries surrounding Ukraine and Russia are denying Russia permission to enter their air space, that's about as good as it will get for now.

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