Sky Shield is an initiative aimed at securing the skies over western Ukraine through the air forces of European NATO members.

Sky Shield is an initiative aimed at securing the skies over western Ukraine through European NATO members' air forces.

SkyShield would help Ukraine's leadership free up resources to protect big cities such as Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih, and relocated Ukrainian combat aircraft can curtail Russia's use ...

The defence plan, known as Operation Sky Shield, was initially suggested after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine ...

Military experts have developed a plan called “Sky Shield” that would deploy 120 European fighter jets to secure airspace ...

03/12/2025 March 12, 2025 "SkyShield" is a plan to offer Ukraine protection from Russian air strikes by deploying a European force of 120 fighter jets. Those behind the plan stress it would be an ...

A group of European leading security figures have revived a plan called Sky Shield, which aims to gather around 120 fighter ...

(Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images) BERLIN — Austria will remain in the European Sky Shield Initiative and increase its defense expenditures to 2% of the country’s GDP annually under a new ...

The defence plan, known as Operation Sky Shield, will see fighter jets from the European air force and the RAF form what is being called Integrated Air Protection Zone (IAPZ). The operation will ...

German Patriot air-defense systems are deployed at Vilnius Airport ahead of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in July 2023. (Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images) ...