Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calls for a no fly zone about Ukraine. That is, “an area where all aerial activity is prohibitedall flights”, explains military analyst Juanjo Rodríguez. In other words, it would mean “closing the sky” over Ukrainian territory and prohibiting planes from flying over the country.
However, the problem does not lie in the hypothetical legal framework of the ban, but in ensuring that it is complied with. And it is that, if a Russian plane enters that space banned, NATO would have to “try to divert him and not to enter the zone and, if he persists in his attitude, or takes aggressive action, knock it downaccording to Rodriguez.
Zelensky is aware: the exclusion zone would mean the entry into the war of the Alliance Atlantic. “Denying airspace in a situation of war is practically the same as declaring war, the consequences would be the same,” summarizes the expert.
Various Western countries have deployed exclusion zones in wars of Bosnia, Iraq or Libyabut this time there is a transcendental difference: Russia is a nuclear power and NATO wants to avoid a direct conflict between powers with atomic weapons.
Source: Lasexta
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