March 2, 2022
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Ukrainian activist breaks down before Boris

It was during this interaction that Daria Kaleniuk, a Ukrainian activist from the NGO Anti-Corruption Action Centre told him that Ukrainians needed a no-fly zone…reports Asian Lite News

A Ukrainian activist broke down in front of UK PM Boris Johnson on Tuesday as she made an impassioned plea to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine. She urged Johnson to do more to help Ukraine which is under Russian attack. Johnson who is visiting Warsaw, Poland and was taking questions from journalists at the British embassy.

It was during this interaction that Daria Kaleniuk, a Ukrainian activist from the NGO Anti-Corruption Action Centre told him that Ukrainians needed a no-fly zone.

“Ukrainian women and Ukrainian children are in deep fear because of bombs and missiles which are coming from the sky. Ukrainian people are desperately asking for the West to protect our sky,” she said, her voice reverberating with emotion.

“Britain guarantees our security under the Budapest Memorandum so you’re coming to Poland, you are not coming to Kyiv, prime minister .. because you are afraid.”

Britain, along with fellow nuclear powers the United States and Russia, is a signatory to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum under which Ukraine gave up its own atomic weapons in return for security guarantees.

In response, Johnson said that there was “not enough that we can do as the UK government to help … the way that you want.”

“The implication of that (no fly zone) is that the UK would be engaged in shooting down Russian planes, would be in direct combat with Russia. That’s not something that we can do or that we’ve envisaged.”

Kaleniuk condemned what she said was Britain’s refusal to stand by the security commitments it made almost three decades ago and said a no-fly zone was essential in order to get humanitarian aid to central and eastern Ukraine.

“Ukrainian children are sitting in shelters in the bombardments and UK and the United States are saying sorry we will not go into war against Russia, we will not protect your sky … because we are simply afraid of World War Three,” she said.

“So what does this security guarantee mean? Nothing.”

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