Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Bartosz Cichocki is seen during a meeting at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, March 1, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
WARSAW, March 10 (Reuters) - Imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine would help bring the conflict there to a faster conclusion and save lives, the Polish ambassador to Kyiv said on Thursday, as Russia continued a relentless bombardment of several cities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading for NATO to impose a no-fly zone, but the alliance is wary of any step that might draw it into direct conflict with Russia.
"Every day of delay costs hundreds of human lives," Bartosz Cichocki told private broadcaster TVN24 from Kyiv. "This is an extension of the conflict that could be ended much faster precisely thanks to the closure of the airspace."
The United States on Tuesday rejected a surprise offer by Poland to transfer its Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. base in Germany and put them at the disposal of the United States as a way to replenish Ukraine's air force. read more
Poland's prime minister said on Wednesday that any supply of fighter jets to Ukraine must be done jointly by NATO countries.
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Irrelevantitis on March 10th, 2022 at 16:19 UTC »
He’s right, it would end the war quicker. Just maybe not in a way most people would prefer.
p_chiggy on March 10th, 2022 at 15:29 UTC »
FFS every single time a news anchor or anyone mentions no-fly zone they then have to explain what that means. Maybe stop calling it by that misleading title and call it what it plainly is: going to war!
ENGELSWASASUGARDADDY on March 10th, 2022 at 13:23 UTC »
Do people just not understand what the fuck a no-fly zone is? It’s not a magical barrier you erect and by some ancient arcane law no one can fly a plane there; it means you shoot down planes and destroy enemy anti-air guns that could contest the zone. In other words it would undoubtedly mean a hot war between nuclear superpowers. There is no practical difference between a no-fly zone and literally just sending soldiers with guns.