International Community Would Be Responsible for a Mass "Humanitarian Catastrophe" in Ukraine
INTERNATIONAL: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday ,March 9, the international community would be responsible for a mass "humanitarian catastrophe" if it will not agree a no-fly zone to protect his country.
Zelensky has said the threat level in Ukraine was at a maximum nearly two weeks into Russia's invasion but Ukrainians had shown they would never give in.
The Ukranian leader has stated that Russia is using missiles, aviation, helicopters against his country. Against civilians. Against their cities. Against their infrastructure. It is the humanitarian responsibility of the world to respond. But there is no decision.
Ukraine has pleaded with Western nations to provide it with fighter jets to counter a Russian invasion that has forced more than two million refugees to flee the country, and U.S. lawmakers have responded by pushing President Joe Biden's administration to facilitate the transfer of aircraft.
On Tuesday , Poland has said it was ready to deploy all its MIG-29 jets to Ramstein Air Base in Germany and put them at the disposal of the United States, urging other NATO members to do the same. The Pentagon has later dismissed the offer as not "tenable."
"So when will there be a decision?" Zelenskiy said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday (March 10) dismissed Russian allegations of biowarfare labs in Ukraine and said they showed that Russia was "capable" of chemical attacks.
Meanwhile, Russia has made repeated accusations that the United States is working with Ukrainian laboratories to develop biological weapons. Such assertions in Russian media increased in the run-up to Moscow's military move into Ukraine and were made as recently as Wednesday ,March 9, by foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
Zelenskiy has also said he worried the allegations meant that Russia might be prepared to deploy chemical weapons in Ukraine.
The United States on Wednesday said the Russian accusations were "laughable" and suggested Moscow could be laying the groundwork to use a chemical or biological weapon ,worries that were also shared by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday.
