Volodymyr Zelensky today again called on NATO to impose an airspace blockade on Ukrainian airspace, warning that otherwise it could see “Russian rockets” falling on the territory of its member states.
“If you do not block our airspace, it will be just a matter of time, Russian rockets will fall on your own territory, on NATO territory, on the homes of NATO (member states) citizens,” the Ukrainian president said in a recorded message. in the early morning hours today.
It came a day after Russian airstrikes on a Ukrainian training base about 20 kilometers from the border with Poland, a NATO and EU member state, near the Ukrainian city of Lviv (west).
According to Kyiv, the Russian bombing resulted in the death of 35 people and the wounding of 134 others.
“Thirty rockets in the Lviv region alone,” he said. “Nothing is happening there that could threaten the territory of the Russian Federation. And just 20 kilometers from the NATO border. “
“Last year, I made it clear to NATO leaders that if they did not take strong precautionary measures against the Russian Federation, war would break out,” he said.
Polish General Waldemar Skripczak, the former chief of the General Staff of the Air Force, said earlier yesterday that the base that was bombed was training units of foreign volunteers who went to Ukraine to fight the Russians. There was also part of Western military aid to Ukraine after the Russian invasion on February 24.
For the American journalist Brent Reno, who was killed near Kyiv yesterday Sunday, the Ukrainian president claimed that he was the victim of a “deliberate attack by the Russian army”. Another American journalist, who was in the same vehicle as the deceased, was injured, as was a Ukrainian citizen.
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