helicopter shot down north of kyiv, one small victory for ukraine against a powerful enemy. orla guerin, bbc news, irpin. we re going to show you some pretty stark video now the alliance persistently refused to contemplate an no fly zone. russian aircraft had been in the skies over ukraine, outnumbering defenders. that s led to calls for what s known as a no fly zone to prevent them posing a threat. so far, the western military alliance nato has been reluctant to use its air power to impose such a zone, in which other planes would be told not to fly over ukraine. why the reluctance? the concern is that, in practice, a no fly zone carries real risks. if the russians flyjets like these into ukrainian airspace,
forces carried on firing. they said it was far too dangerous for people to get in the evacuation buses and to try to drive to safety. he said that there are still negotiations going on between the russians and ukrainians and that, when it is safe and when it is possible, they will get people on those buses and they will get them to places like this. but, for the moment, all of this is prepared, all of it s ready but there s no one here. that was sarah rainsford. this week we ve heard repeated calls from the ukrainian president for nato to impose a no fly zone over ukraine something the alliance has consistently refused to contemplate. our security correspondent, gordon corera, explains the reasons why. russian aircraft had been in the skies over ukraine, outnumbering defenders.
corera explains the reasons why. russian aircraft had been in the skies over ukraine, outnumbering defenders. that s led to calls for what s known as a no fly zone to prevent them posing a threat. so far, the western military alliance nato has been reluctant to use its air power to impose such a zone, in which other planes would be told not to fly over ukraine. why the reluctance? the concern is that, in practice, a no fly zone carries real risks. if the russians fly jets like these into ukrainian airspace, then nato planes would directly engage them in combat in the skies. but it also means taking out threats on the ground to nato planes so they can enforce the zone, so potentially attacking russian surface to air missile sites, and russia has advanced 5400 systems which could, in theory, shoot down nato planes even from over the border in belarus. nato has been building up its air power in the region
to places like italy, bringing the total trip complement to the united states to something like 100,000 troops in western europe, but not actually going into ukraine are anything like that. so lots of things moving on lots of fronts and there are some critics saying perhaps these things could be speeded up given the urgent nature of what is going on in ukraine. thank you very much, duncan kennedy for hours in washington. as we have been hearing, president putin has warned the west that any country imposing a no fly zone over ukraine will be considered to have joined the war. so far nato has rejected ukrainian pleas for such a zone saying it would escalate conflict. 0ur security correspondent explains the reasons why. russian aircraft had been in the skies over ukraine, outnumbering defenders. that s led to calls for what s known as a no fly zone to prevent them posing a threat. so far, the western military alliance nato has been reluctant to use its air
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