German deputies discussing the idea to shoot down russian missiles over Ukraine from the territory of NATO countries.

NATO countries may start destroying russian missiles over Ukraine from their territory in order to relieve the load on the Ukrainian air defense system and allow Kyiv to defend the front. This idea found more support among German politicians than a possible sending of troops, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

In particular, this proposal was supported by deputies of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Green Party.

CDU spokesman and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Roderich Kiesewetter cited Israel as an example, which the United States, Great Britain, France and other Western countries helped repel an Iranian air attack. According to him, this shows that such a decision will not make NATO countries a party to the conflict.

It is possible to use air defense to destroy Russian missiles from the territory of Poland and Romania, said Anton Hofreiter, head of the Bundestag Committee on European Policy. Air defense systems need to be deployed on the borders of neighboring countries so that "the western parts of Ukraine can be defended," said Agnieszka Bruger, a deputy from the Green Party.

At the same time, the implementation of this idea will require the production of more new air defense systems and missiles for them, said Markus Faber, a deputy from the Free Democratic Party.

The fact that NATO countries are studying the possibility of shooting down russian missiles over Ukraine was announced at the end of March by Deputy Polish Foreign Minister Andrzej Sheina. At the same time, he made a reservation that such a decision can be made "only with the consent of the Ukrainian side and taking into account its international consequences."

In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the possibility that NATO countries might use their aircraft to intercept russian missiles hitting the country's energy facilities. "If this aviation rises on the territory of our neighboring countries, and shoots down missiles that certainly fly to Ukraine, but can also fly to these territories, as the facts with Poland and Romania have already been recorded, then let them shoot down these missiles, I will only applaud," Zelensky said.

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