Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, during an online address to the participants of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly session, called on neighboring countries to close the sky over the western regions of Ukraine, according to his post on Facebook. “Russia is trying to destroy everything it cannot capture. They continue to kill and terrorize the civilian population, innocent people. To stop this, I called on our partners to allow Ukraine to use Western weapons at a greater distance,” said Umerov. He also emphasized that Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities pose a threat to Ukraine’s neighbo…