ISA condemns the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has already displaced millions and killed or wounded thousands, and demands the withdrawal of Russian troops immediately.
This war is part of a wider conflict which was created by both Russian and Western imperialism (NATO) only for the
people want us to do more. want us to do more. want no fly zones. want troops to go in. when it starts world war 3, there are lines we cannot cross. people don t want to hear that, obviously, when you re watching these atrocities coming across your screens every day and every night. i think one of the things that has to happen is we ve got to make sure that everyone knows how much we re doing. let s put it in context, what we ve given to ukraine. their annual defense budget is $6 billion. we ve given them $2.4 billion. but what do they hear from zelenskyy? you re not doing anything. it s true. zelenskyy is always going to do that. what zelenskyy is doing with a genius capability is trying to keep this at the top of our consciousness. because as long as the world is paying close attention every day, then he can win this.
president zelenskyy tweeted that they discussed, quote, american leadership on anti-russian sanctions and defense assistance to ukraine. our own matthew chance also spoke to president zelenskyy. i want to turn to matthew, who is in kyiv. he just interviewed zelenskyy at his bunker. so matthew, president zelenskyy s getting worldwide admiration, obviously, for refusing to leave kyiv. what did he say to you? reporter: well, it was we asked six or seven questions of him in that bunker, in central kyiv, where he was wearing military fatigues and surrounded by military forces. we spoke a little bit about his insistence that the united states impose no fly zones along with its nato allies above ukraine, something president biden s refused to do because it would bring u.s. forces and nato forces potentially in direct contact with the russians. and president zelenskyy said, look, we re not trying to draw anyone into this conflict.
us, that russia withdraw their forces to russian territory. i commanded a squadron in the air force and air force leaders know that we are not going to put our airmen at risk unless we take due diligence before we send them into the skies. sandra, it s important to understand, there are two kinds of no fly zones. a declared no fly zone where you hope the other side won t come up and attack your forces, and there s an imposed no fly zone. we would only, and nato in the past has only made clear that it would do a no fly zone when it first prepared the battlefield, sent in missile strikes and airstrikes to take out the adversaries radar, command and control, and in this case, what russia would see a sanctuary basis on russian soil. so we would have to lay down 24, 48 hours of shock and awe attack before we would want to put our airmen in the air and then i do
the west has been a few steps behind a single whole time. we should ve started with some of the deterrence a few years ago when we saw the formation of turks on the re-ukrainian border so i think it s high time that the west get up front by this because this is not where we were three weeks to go when we are trying to stop this. this is a whole new place in the west needs to be talking about a range of developments. and i think that can also come out of pressure. he s not very popular with his own people right now. the white house has dismissed the no-fly zone. is that the recall in your estimation? i don t believe that is. i think you confront a bully with power and disbeliever. power. he doesn t respect weakness. so i think that there should be open talks and debates about a no-fly zone of what that can look like in this case. certainly iraq, libya, syria has no fly zones and they are not even nato partners and didn t