Kiev’s military asks NATO to close skies over western Ukraine

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has called on neighboring NATO member-states to close the sky over the western part of the country.

"I have asked neighboring NATO member states, which cannot provide us with their air defense systems, to close the sky over our western regions from their territory," he wrote on Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in Russia) after his statement at the spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Sofia.