The Ukrainian president had pleaded for the establishment of air corridors to protect the country from Russian strikes. But the alliance refuses to engage in an open conflict with Russia.
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Ukrainian journalists present in Brussels have multiplied the questions throughout Friday but they have, everywhere, received the same answer: there will be no aerial exclusion zone above the Ukraine. Neither NATO nor the United States, nor the European countries do not want to engage in an open conflict with Russia, and they will not try to intercept and slaughter Russian devices that would fly over Ukraine.
If an aircraft belonging to a NATO member country was the target of the Russian army during a fight, it would automatically trigger Article 5 – or mutual assistance clause – of the Atlantic Treaty North and would result in the 30 members in the conflict.
“No planes in the sky, no troops on the Ukrainian territory,” said Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, after a meeting of foreign ministers. “We have the responsibility, as an Allies of NATO, to prevent this war from extending beyond Ukraine because it would be even more dangerous, more devastating, and it would cause more suffering” , added the Norwegian manager, stressing that he understood the “despair” of Ukrainians.
Their president, Volodymyr Zelensky, still pleaded, Friday morning, for a “No-Fly area” after the Russian strike against the Zaporijia nuclear power plant. In a broadcast video on Friday night, he was very bitter, deploring the “weakness” of the alliance and adding, about the ministerial meeting: “It was clear that everyone does not consider that the battle for The freedom of Europe is the number one goal. “And it launched for ministers:” All the people who will die after today will die because of you. “
the days Upcoming “Probably Pires”
According to Mr. Stoltenberg, the coming days will be, in any case, “probably worse, with more dead, suffering and destruction”. In the evening, Antony Blinken had identical remarks: everything shows that the conflict is still likely to worsen but there is no question of going to war against Russia, confirmed the US Secretary of State. It is rather to help Ukrainian “heroic” to defend themselves by strengthening their military means. For the rest, “we do not seek the conflict, but if the conflict comes to us, we are ready,” he added, as President Joe Biden, that “every inch” of the NATO territory would be forbidden In case of Russian attack against a member country.
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