Ukraine Has Right Not Only To ‘Closed’ Sky, But To Full-Fledged NATO Assistance

The fire should be extinguished where it is burning, not where it is more convenient.

Any military support to Ukraine is legal and must be provided urgently.

Andrei Sannikov, one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, coordinator of the European Belarus civil campaign, wrote about this on Facebook:

“The Ukrainian authorities should seek full-fledged military assistance from NATO member countries, not limited to “closing the sky”.

Russia has been fighting in Ukraine for eight years, and now it has unleashed a full-scale war, violating all norms of international law.

There are many good interstate organizations that sternly warn that international peace and security must not be violated. Chief among them are the UN and the Security Council, whose decisions are binding. Only here is the trouble: the aggressor country, Russia, is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and blocks with its veto all decisions that it dislikes.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) also cares about peace, only it cannot do anything. After all, Russia is also there, and Lukashenka.

There are two interstate organizations that are happily free from the presence of dictatorships: the European Union and NATO. That is why they have effective tools not only for maintaining peace, but for restoring and preserving it.

The European Union has a whole range of measures to influence violators of international law, in particular political and economic ones. They use them very reluctantly and belatedly, as evidenced, for example, by the situation in Belarus, where Lukashenka was only scolded for a long time, but not punished, even for crimes against humanity.

Today, the EU has gathered, mobilized and, together with the US and Canada, has finally begun to introduce harsh measures against Russia. True, the war was already in full swing, and the West again did not dare to take preventive measures.

What remains is NATO, an organization that aims to “preserve peace and security”. The war in Ukraine unleashed by Putin is a war in Europe that threatens the whole world. This war has been prepared for a long time and has no limits as to the methods of its conduct. It is accompanied by a massive campaign of disinformation and lies. Russian troops are killing women, children, and the elderly in Ukraine, using the deadliest weapons prohibited by international treaties. Kindergartens, schools, fuel depots and nuclear power plants are being bombed.

A global catastrophe is taking place in Ukraine.

Ukraine is heroically resisting the insane master of the Kremlin, but it cannot cope alone.

NATO correctly analyzes the situation, but incorrectly assesses the consequences of its own non-participation. In addition, it retains some inexplicable, if not criminal, belief that it is possible to negotiate with Putin. And he lies insolently, being sure that he will get away with everything, as he always did.

He is also terribly afraid of NATO and, out of fear, threatens to further escalate if NATO begins to provide real military assistance to Ukraine.

Putin, of course, has not forgotten how, disregarding all the rules and regulations, he sent the Russian troops to help the bloody Syrian dictator Assad. Putin persistently calls the dispatch of troops legitimate, since he was invited there by Bashar al-Assad. This happened after the Kremlin became convinced that US President Obama was not capable of decisive action. Assad easily crossed all the “red lines” drawn by the American president. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, there were millions of refugees, and a dictator still rules in Syria with the support of Russia. Not only has Putin not forgotten about his crimes in Syria, he expects that he will succeed even now.

If nobody stops Putin in Ukraine, he will move on. Moving on means Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland with its strategically vulnerable Suwalki corridor. He and Dugin decided so.

War crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russia require the use of the entire arsenal of means to stop this war.

Russia has explicitly stated that its goal is the “denazification” of Ukraine. If translated from the Kremlin dialect into the language of the aggressor, it means “genocide”. This is a grave crime that must be urgently terminated.

In accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, Ukraine has the “inalienable right to individual or collective self-defence” in the event of an armed attack.

To exercise this right, Ukraine has every legitimate reason to apply to NATO member countries.

The fire is extinguished where it is burning, and not where it is more convenient.

The fire is extinguished not with bare hands and statements, but with a water cannon.”