Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his international partners to intercept Russian missiles and drones over Ukraine, as was done during Iran's massive missile attack on Israel earlier in April, DPA reported, BTA reported.
Zelensky said this during his participation in a meeting of the European Political Community in Britain. Missiles and drones are not carriers of state sovereignty. “These steps must be taken“, Zelensky said. He addressed the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Poland explicitly. “Your courage could be decisive for peace“, Zelensky said.
In April, a major Iranian attack on Israel with more than 300 missiles and drones was repelled with the help of American, British and French fighter jets and air defense systems. However, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has already rejected Zelensky's proposal.
“We will not become a party to the conflict. That is why we support Ukraine in destroying the Russian planes, but NATO will not be directly involved,“, Stoltenberg said last week. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also rejected Zelensky's idea. He said that both the proposal and the Ukrainian president's call to lift restrictions on the use of Western-supplied weapons on Russian territory were “non-negotiable”.