Associated Press: Why no-fly zone in Ukraine is impossible?

  "Military experts say there is no chance that the United States, the United Kingdom or other allies in Europe will create a no-fly zone, as this could easily escalate the war in Ukraine to nuclear confrontations between NATO and Russia.

 

    The Associated Press provides more clarification on the situation.

 

    What is a no-fly zone?

 

    The no-fly zone would not allow any aircraft to fly over Ukraine without permission. Western countries have imposed such restrictions for more than a decade over part of Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991, the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993-1995, and the civil war in Libya in 2011.

 

    Why wouldn't NATO do that in Ukraine?

 

    In this way, NATO would risk a direct confrontation with Russia, which could lead to a wider war between nuclear powers.

 

    While the idea may have sparked public imagination, the declaration of a no-fly zone could force NATO pilots to shoot down Russian planes.

 

    Moreover, in addition to fighter jets, NATO should deploy refueling aircraft and electronic reconnaissance aircraft to support the mission. To protect these relatively slow, high-flying aircraft, NATO may have to destroy ground-to-air missile batteries in Russia and Belarus.

 

    "The only way to enter the no-fly zone is to send NATO fighter jets into Ukrainian airspace and then enter the no-fly zone by shooting down Russian planes," said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after an urgent meeting with the Alliance's foreign ministers.

 

    "If we do so, there will eventually be a comprehensive war in the world, involving many more countries and causing much more human suffering. That's why we're making this painful decision, "he added.

 

    What would the no-fly zone achieve?

 

    The Ukrainian government and the people, distracted day by day in the bomb shelters, say the no-fly zone would protect civilians, and now nuclear power plants, from Russian airstrikes.

 

    However, experts say that the main damage in Ukraine is not the Russian air force, but the land forces.

 

    Ukrainians really want more NATO intervention similar to what NATO did in Libya in 2011, when Alliance forces launched attacks on government positions, says Justin Bronk, an expert at the Royal Joint Services Institute in London. This is hardly likely when the opponent is Russia.

 

    "They would like to see the West liquidate the rocket artillery firing on Ukrainian cities," Bronk said.

 

    "We will not go to war with the Russian army. They are a huge nuclear power. "There is no way we could model, let alone manage, the escalation chain that would result from such an action," he added."

Wet chicken from the Lithuanian Seimas disagrees:  

"The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lithuanian Seimas sees the only way to ensure the security of the Ukrainian people and Europe - to declare no-fly zones over the established humanitarian corridors and nuclear facilities," said Laima Andrikienė, Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee."

 The old woman is freezing and wants to be warmed up with nuclear bombs. Lithuania is a land of suicides.