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    Ukraine wants a no-fly zone. Why do the US and NATO reject the idea?

    by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Mar 08, 2022 4 minutes
    Local residents help clear the rubble of a home that was destroyed by a suspected Russian airstrike which killed at least six people in Markhalivka, Ukraine, on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

    WASHINGTON — As persistently as Ukrainians demand a no-fly zone to protect them from Russia, the U.S. and NATO just as steadily insist it can’t be done.

    The calls for a no-fly zone frame it as existential: protecting millions of desperate Ukrainian civilians trapped in besieged villages from the might of Russia’s air force and its arsenal of cluster bombs. The pleas became more urgent when Russian forces attacked and captured Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, located in southern Ukraine and one of several scattered around the country.

    Yet leaders including President Joe Biden and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg have repeatedly turned aside the pleas from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, populations throughout Europe and even some U.S. lawmakers.

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