War in Ukraine: The no-fly zone would mean NATO’s war with Russia – SME.sk

7. mar 2022 at 20:15 I Paid content

BRATISLAVA. The British Royal Air Force fighters were also allowed to shoot down foreign planes over London if there was a threat of an attack on the Olympic stadiums.

The security of the 2012 Olympic Games fears the British government out of fear of terrorist attacks insured by creating a no-fly zone.

It was a difficult operation, it lasted several weeks. Although the no-fly zone consisted of only a 50-kilometer-wide strip of airspace over south-east London, Britain involved several helicopters, fighters, four air defense systems and also the largest navy ship, HMS Ocean.

When the United States established no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, about 50 planes took turns for several hours a day to protect the Kurdish and Shiite minorities from helicopter attacks by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

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Iraq at the same time he had only a limited amount of aircraft, air defense was mostly destroyed in the war.

if the ONTO agreed to the creation of a no – fly zone above Ukrainewhich repeatedly calls for the establishment of a Ukrainian president Volodymyr ZelenskyMember States would thus have to deal not only with the threat of drawing the whole of Europe into direct war with Russia.