Europe Not Ready: Aviation Expert Explains Why Romania Didn't Shoot Down Russian Missile

Europe is not ready: aviation expert explains why Romania did not shoot down Russian missile Petro Sineoky

One of the Russian missiles during the attack on Christmas flew 140 kilometers through the territory of Moldova, and then Romania, which is in NATO. But they still haven't decided to shoot it down.

Aviation expert Anatoly Khrapchinsky told Channel 24 about this, noting that during the attack Poland also once again raised its air force on its territory. But they still haven't decided to shoot down Russian missiles flying over Ukrainian territory.

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As Khrapchinsky noted, of course, NATO countries must protect their territory from the flight of Russian missiles. At one time, Europe even created the Sky Shield project, according to which countries must protect their airspace from threats from Russia.

We see that all this remains a deep concern or illusions about creating protection for European airspace. During my work at one of the military bases in Europe, when I talked to officers, did they have the opportunity to shoot down at least some Russian missile, they said no. They only train. They would like to, but there are political aspects. That is, we see that Europe is currently not politically ready to shoot down such air targets, Khrapchinsky said.

Ukrainian air defense is squeezing the maximum out of the means that are currently in its arsenal. Russia is trying to improve its combined strikes. Sometimes it even gets to the point that they use Tu-160 strategic aviation, which is worth its weight in gold to them.

There are also positive aspects. Russian weapons are becoming less, but they still reached an agreement with the DPRK on receiving ballistic missiles, self-propelled guns, and so on. We need to continue to “pound this rock” because of the destruction of aircraft depots, Russian aircraft and do everything we can using our own weapons, – said Khrapchinsky.

We will add that monitoring publics reported that one of the Russian missiles flew 140 kilometers through the territory of Moldova and Romania. Despite this, Romania does not confirm that the missile violated their airspace.