Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy DanilovMOSCOW, Mar 8 Secretary of the National Security Council and defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that if NATO does not want or cannot close the sky over Ukraine, Kyiv will close it itself, called for weapons. «If NATO does not want or cannot» close the sky «over Ukraine, we will close it ourselves, give us weapons if your weapons are in cases,” he wrote on Facebook. repeatedly demanded that Western partners close the skies over the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously stated that closing the skies over Ukraine would have enormous consequences not only for the Russian Federation, but also for Europe.
Zelensky said that lost interest in Ukraine's accession to NATORussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized.
