Will NATO protect Ukraine's skies? The Bundestag has proposed using Polish and Romanian air defence systems to destroy Russian drones over western Ukraine.

The Bundestag has heard a proposal, the implementation of which could seriously help the Ukrainian Armed Forces to protect the sky over the western part of the country.

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Representatives of parliamentary groups from the CDU, Green (Grünen) and Free Democrats (FDP) parties have proposed to NATO bloc allies to shoot down Russian drones over western Ukraine.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that this proposal was made by Nico Lange, an expert at the Munich Security Council (MSC), and former NATO Deputy Secretary General Lieutenant General Horst-Heinrich Brauß.

They believe that NATO air defence systems deployed in Poland and Romania could take over the task of covering the skies, which would free up Ukrainian air defence systems and move them to other, often more important, destinations. As an example, experts cited the assistance of allies to Israel's army during a massive attack from Iran.

It is worth noting that Poland and Romania have already been inadvertently (or perhaps deliberately) attacked by Russian weapons of destruction on several occasions, and Poland even raised its air force several times during massive missile attacks on Ukraine, although it never used it to destroy targets.

The article published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung refers specifically to drones. But it is not quite clear whether the idea of the German parliamentarians concerns ballistic missiles, which attack civilian and energy facilities in western Ukraine much more often and cause incomparable damage to UAVs.

Undoubtedly, the implementation of such an idea would be a huge help to Ukraine and would allow it to repel attacks by the occupying army of russia much more effectively.

Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung