Despite calls for weeks to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, another top U.S. official on Thursday rejected that proposition by saying that it wouldn’t work. Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier told a Senate hearing that a NATO or U.S. no-fly zone wouldn’t protect against many of the weapons that Russian forces are using. The Russian military is using “a combination of mostly missiles, artillery, multiple rocket launchers,” and “there are some precision-guided munitions that are being dropped from aircraft, but that number is small,” Berrier told Sen. Angus King (I-Maine). A no-fly zone wouldn’t work against “inhibit missiles, rockets, and artillery,” Berrier added. Since the start of the Feb. 24 conflict, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has often called for a NATO no-fly zone and has gone so far as to criticize NATO nations and the United States for not doing so. White House officials and NATO …
Top US Official Shoots Down Plans for No-fly Zone in Ukraine
March 10, 2022
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