

"The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is flying over the continental United States right now," Brig. Still, officials insisted, they continue to closely monitor the vessel as they have since it entered the country - while voicing their concern to the Chinese. Josh Einiger has more.Ī massive spy balloon believed to be from China was seen above Montana and is being tracked as it flies across the continental United States, with President Joe Biden for now deciding against "military options" because of the risk to civilians, U.S. Today the leadership of the alliance gave the green light for further bombing of Ukrainian cities and villages, having refused to set up a no-fly zone.A massive spy balloon believed to be from China was seen above Montana and is being tracked as it flies across the continental United States. Zelensky criticized the decision in a televised address late that evening, saying, “Today there was a NATO summit, a weak summit, a confused summit, a summit where it was clear that not everyone considers the battle for Europe’s freedom to be the No. “We have a responsibility as NATO allies to prevent this war from escalating beyond Ukraine, because that would be even more dangerous, more devastating and would cause even more human suffering.” “We are not part of this conflict,” Stoltenberg said at a meeting of the alliance in Brussels. On Friday, NATO leadership again denied Zelensky’s request.
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“But direct war between the world’s two nuclear powers should be a non-starter.” troops to the eastern flank of NATO - these are all the right moves,” he continued. “Military equipment for Ukraine, humanitarian support for Ukraine, crippling sanction on Russia, movement of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at a news conference on March 4. It’s a bad idea and Congress would never authorize it.” Chris Murphy, D-Conn., calling the idea “the U.S. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., saying it would mean “ World War III” and Sen. However, the idea has been nearly unanimously rejected, with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said on Sunday that the option should be kept on the table. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois - have called for a no-fly zone to be implemented, while Sen. In Congress, two Republican legislators - Sen. What we’re trying to do is end this war in Ukraine, not start a larger one,” he said.

“The president’s been very clear about one thing all along as well, which is we’re not going to put the United States in direct conflict with Russia, not have, you know, American planes flying against Russian planes or our soldiers on the ground in Ukraine, because for everything we’re doing for Ukraine, the president also has a responsibility to not get us into a direct conflict, a direct war with Russia, a nuclear power, and risk a war that expands even beyond Ukraine to Europe,” Blinken said on “Meet the Press.” (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) Russian Su-35 fighter jets flying over Russia in November.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the same on Sunday in an interview with NBC News. military shooting down Russian planes and prompting a potential direct war with Russia, the exact step that we want to avoid.” “The reason why that has not been a step the president has been willing to take or we have been interested in taking is because a no-fly zone requires implementation,” Psaki told reporters. potentially a direct conflict, and potentially a war with Russia, which is something we are not planning to be a part of.” She reiterated the position on Thursday. 28 briefing that implementing such a zone would require “deploying U.S. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a Feb. Make a humanitarian air zone, without rockets, without air bombs,” Zelensky said Sunday via Twitter. “Close the sky over Ukraine! Close it for all Russian missiles, Russian combat aircraft, for all these terrorists. But we firmly believe that Russia won’t stop at just Ukraine, which would potentially drag NATO into this conflict anyway.” “We recognize that this would be a serious escalation in the war and that it could bring NATO into direct conflict with Russia. “We are calling on the West to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine,” Yermak wrote. (Ukrainian President Office/via Reuters TV/Handout via Reuters) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his office in Kyiv on Monday.
