Ukraine has launched a desperate video appeal to close its skies to Russian war planes.
The haunting video asks: “Raise your head to the sky. What do you see ? The Eiffel Tower? A flock of birds ?
“Maybe even a rainbow? For the last ten days Ukrainians have been seeing the sky like this ..”
And the film continues to show horror imagery of the war which may have killed 2,000 civilians already and over 11,000 Russian troops.
The video was handed to the Daily Mirror as we entered Ukraine on Monday morning and officials appeal to NATO to slap a no- fly zone over the war battered country.
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It was made by Ukraine officials who are trying to stop the war in a highly charged information campaign against Putin’s invasion of their homeland.
This may stop the brutal Russian air strikes on Ukrainian cities which have left hundreds of thousands cowering in basements all over the country.
Today is day 12 of the war, which the video warns will threaten the whole of Europe if it is not stopped urgently.
The film shows Ukrainians hiding from the Russian onslaught beneath subways and under bridges.
It adds: ”Even metre long concrete slabs cannot hold back Russian bombs and missiles forever.
“Putin has made it clear that he does not accept the language of diplomacy.
“His tools are murder and chaos.
“And if he is not stopped the attack will take over all of Europe. “
It goes on to demand that the “entire world community “ takes to the streets and demands and end to the war and asks:”Support the closing of the skies over Ukraine.”
