Close the sky over Ukraine! [ Редагувати ]
An extraordinary session of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council took place.
The deputies of the city council unanimously approved the appeal to the governments of NATO member states, the President of the United States, the President of France, the Chancellor of Germany, The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ambassadors of all countries to close the skies over Ukraine.
Ivano-Frankivsk City Council’s appeal to you to urgently close the sky over Ukraine.
We, the deputies of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, appeal to you with a demand to immediately close the skies over Ukraine.
On the night of February 24, 2022, when all the citizens of Ukraine were asleep, the enemy, represented by the President of the Russian Federation, gave a criminal order to attack the sovereign Ukrainian land. Ukrainians woke up to the horror of aerial bombardment of their cities and villages.
For ten days now, Russian troops have been shelling and destroying key infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, conducting massive shelling of residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages using aircraft, ballistic missiles, artillery, and multiple rocket launchers. Hundreds of civilians in Ukraine have already died.
The last ten days have shown that this is a war not only against Ukraine, but against democracy, freedom and humanity around the world. Every minute wasted is a death of our citizens, women and children, destruction of our cities and villages.
The Ukrainian state and the people of Ukraine have become victims to the imperial ambitions of a totalitarian regime that has revived on the territory of the Russian Federation and is threatening the whole world with a nuclear disaster.
The night on March 4 showed that the extermination of Ukrainians is not the only goal of the bloodthirsty regime of Putin and the Russian Federation. By shelling the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the occupying forces called into question the survival of all mankind and even the lives of their own citizens.
The Russian Federation's attack on Ukraine has already caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to cross NATO's borders. The whole world understands the importance of closing the sky over Ukraine. Now it is the time for all democratic governments that share the values of human life to prove their humanistic ideas. Closing the sky over Ukraine will allow us to stop the advance of the enemy and protect the lives of thousands of Ukrainians.
On behalf of the millions of Ukrainians who have been in shelters since 24 February 2022, on behalf of those who are fighting for Europe's freedom, in memory of more than 2,000 civilians, and on behalf of all those killed in the Russian bombing, we urge you to close the sky over Ukraine.
Approved on an extraordinary basis
21st session of Ivano-Frankivsk City Council
March 5, 2022
