Fear that Russia may threaten an operation prevails: the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum ignore the request to close the sky over Ukraine, - says Vereshchuk

This was stated by the Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk on the air of the national telethon.

"We now have a real danger in the protection of critical infrastructure, which includes, for example, our nuclear power plants. This is not a question of Ukraine, right? And we see how the Russian Federation, irresponsibly shelling such critical infrastructure, moreover, announcing such shelling, saying that it will continue to destroy infrastructure, he is doing it completely irresponsibly. And Europe and the whole world is silently watching this, in my opinion," Vereshchuk said.

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She noted that the president explains to Western partners what the problem is.

"But for some reason the fear that Russia could threaten someone with ground or other operations prevails. And now we have a question for the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum - the United States and Britain: are these really the superpowers that promised security in this way?" - the deputy prime minister asks.