{"id":1358298,"date":"2022-03-04T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1358298"},"modified":"2022-03-04T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:53:08","slug":"ukraine-seeks-no-fly-zone-after-russia-allegedly-attacks-europes-largest-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-seeks-no-fly-zone-after-russia-allegedly-attacks-europes-largest-nuclear-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Seeks No-Fly Zone After Russia Allegedly Attacks Europe\u2019s Largest Nuclear Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-seeks-no-fly-zone-after-russia-allegedly-attacks-europes-largest-nuclear-plant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1358298&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday repeated his plea for NATO to enforce a no-fly zone to protect\u00a0his increasingly beleaguered country after claiming Russia attacked Europe\u2019s largest nuclear plant.<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces allegedly seized the site overnight after a building at the complex was set ablaze during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders, according to claims contained in multiple news agency reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The claimed attack on the Zaporizhzhia plant did not produce elevated radiation levels, AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-boris-johnson-technology-business-ddbace81e2e09028e0da1ec37619d148\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even as damage reports come in, Zelenskyy invoked the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion and fire to raise alarm about further Russia attacks as his country fought on alone.<\/p>\n<p>The plant \u201ccould be like six Chernobyls. The Russian tanks knew what they were shelling \u2026 This is terror on an unprecedented level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20108546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238915797.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20108546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238915797-1024x662-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), points on a map of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia power plant as updates the situation of nuclear powerplants in Ukraine during a briefing at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria on March 4, 2022. (JOE KLAMAR\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Any attempt by European air forces in general or NATO in particular to impose a no-fly zone would likely severely escalate the conflict despite\u00a0Zelensky\u2019s plea for Russian civilians to express outrage about the plant attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRadiation does not know where the Russian border is,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky\u2019s no-fly zone call echoed one he made just 24-hours earlier and before the Russian nuclear station attack.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday he <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-03-22\/h_d51cf8cc136ccdce044815f8050366a8\">said<\/a> NATO overhead protection would be the \u201cmost important step\u201d as Ukraine faces \u201cincessant bombing\u201d by Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">\u201cWe want a no-fly zone because our people are being killed. From Belarus, from Russia \u2014 these missiles, these Iskander missiles and bomber planes, are coming,\u201d Zelensky said in a plea for help that has been rejected in other forms previously.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not Your Wingman: Western Nations Deny Plans to Provide Fighter Jets to Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kN7SkIoF2H\">https:\/\/t.co\/kN7SkIoF2H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1499689860960903171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">\u201cI asked President Biden, and Scholz and Macron\u2026and I said, if you can\u2019t provide a no-fly zone right now, then tell us when?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">Using a televised news conference in Kyiv to address the crisis, the Ukrainian president went on to ask how many more people in Ukraine must be killed before NATO agrees to act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">White House press secretary Jen Psaki has previously said using U.S. forces to create a no-fly zone in Ukraine is \u201cnot a good idea,\u201d as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/28\/zelensky-prods-biden-to-impose-no-fly-zone-psaki-not-a-good-idea\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">Speaking during an interview with MSNBC, Psaki said the implementation of such a defensive dynamic by the U.S. military \u201cwould essentially mean the U.S. military would be shooting down planes, Russian planes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\">NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also said Wednesday NATO allies \u201cdo not seek conflict with Russia,\u201d stressing NATO is a \u201cdefensive alliance\u201d and will not actively enter the disputed airspace.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday repeated his plea for NATO to enforce a no-fly zone to protect\u00a0his increasingly beleaguered country after claiming Russia attacked Europe\u2019s largest nuclear plant. 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