Brussels: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said the military organization will not enforce a “flight restricted zone” in Ukraine, as such a move could lead to Europe’s nuclear attack. There will be a widespread war with Russia armed with nuclear weapons.
After chairing a meeting of US Secretary of State Antoine Blinken and foreign ministers of other NATO member states, Stoltenberg acknowledged Ukraine’s pain, saying that Russian forces had intensified attacks in Ukraine and were attacking cities and other sites. are being heavily bombed, forcing more than one million people to leave the country.
He said, “What is happening in Ukraine is appalling. It is painful the human suffering we are witnessing and the level of devastation we have not seen in Europe since World War II.”
But Stoltenberg said, “We are not going to Ukraine, neither on land nor in Ukrainian airspace.” NATO’s security guarantees are for 30 member states and Article 5 of the treaty says that if anyone member is attacked, all the members will come forward to protect him. If Russia shoots down a warship of NATO, then this situation can come.
The NATO secretary-general said, “The flight ban is just one way of enforcing the zone. That is, NATO sends its fighters into Ukrainian airspace and shoots down Russian planes and enforces a restricted flight zone.”
He said the cooperating countries believed, “If we send our fighters into Ukraine’s airspace, it will lead to a wider war in Europe.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to the West to enforce a flight-restricted zone in his country. This appeal has been made after the night fire at a nuclear plant in Ukraine. The plant is the largest in Europe.
“We are not part of this conflict and our responsibility is to ensure that this (war) does not escalate and does not go beyond Ukraine, because if it does, it will be more destructive and dangerous,” Stoltenberg said.
