Today at 20:13
Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko announced that Kyiv City Council has passed an appeal to foreign states, international organizations, and the world community to close the sky over Ukraine.
OPEN APPEAL
of Kyiv City Council to the United States of America, members of the NATO, governments of European countries, diplomatic missions, representative offices of international organizations deployed in Kyiv on the implementation of the A2/AD zone over the territory of Ukraine
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For 9 days Ukraine has been heroically resisting the rage of the Russian Federation. For 9 days Russia has been trying to destroy the largest European country in the center of Europe.
Disregarding the rules of warfare, the Russian Federation is barbarically attacking civilian objects from the air: residential buildings, kindergartens and schools, hospitals, and maternity hospitals.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights counted 1,006 civilian deaths or injuries as of 00:00, March 3, 2022. 331 dead of which 19 were children, 675 wounded of which 31 were children. And this information is far from complete due to the heavy intensity of fighting.
Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Mariupol, Chuguyiv, Izyum, Bucha, Irpin, Bila Tserkva – this is an incomplete list of Ukrainian cities that the enemy is trying to raze to the ground in the literal sense.
The fire is directed from the sky, to kill, at night, when the civilian population is supposed to be asleep.
These are not random targets, this is the deliberate targeting of civilian objects. Precisely from the sky. For that, the territory of both the Russian Federation and Belarus is used.
On April 26, 1986, there was a catastrophe, which today is considered to be the largest in the history of nuclear power, both in terms of the number of deaths and casualties as well as the economic damage. A radioactive cloud from Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident passed over the European part of the then Soviet Union, most of Europe, and the eastern part of United America.
Today, the Russian Federation controls not only the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, where the occupants have been holding hostage and preventing the replacement of 95 employees since February 24. Today, we are already concerned about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. It is the largest in Europe with six power units.
If an explosion at Zaporizhzhia NPP takes place, then the consequences will be devastating not only for Ukraine but also for the entire world, because a nuclear disaster of such severity will exceed all previous accidents at nuclear power plants, including Chornobyl NPP and the disaster at Fukushima-Daiichi NPP.
Your arguments that the current refusal to implement A2/AD is because NATO is trying to avoid a nuclear war are not convincing, since the Russian Federation has already started one. Historical lessons are tough and should be taken into account.
Listen to your people. Yesterday’s Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that outrage over Russia’s invasion in Ukraine is growing. Some 74% of Americans, including majorities of Republicans and Democrats, said that the United States and its NATO allies must impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Without any exaggeration, the only way for all of us, and I mean the whole world, to survive is an A2/AD zone over Ukraine.
Close the sky over Ukraine! Save not Ukraine – save the world!
Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko
