The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, assured this Monday that Russia’s military capabilities include being able to respond to the supply of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, one of the new proposals that the White House, the European Union and the allies Kiev has as a valid plan for the counteroffensive for Moscow. So far, the Ukrainians do not have this type of fighter in their arsenal, but their pilots are already being trained in their handling.
Last week, after the last meeting of the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine, the United States, Denmark and the Netherlands decided to begin in the coming weeks to design a training system for handling F-16 fighters, so The arrival of the fighters on Ukrainian soil is more and more a reality than a possibility that has generated discomfort in Moscow.
So Lavrov dismissed the Western allies’ delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as an unacceptable escalation. According to the head of Kremlin diplomacy, these military actions are unacceptable in the midst of the war started by Russia. Regarding our reaction, I have no doubt that our armed forces do have the capabilities to react to this, ”he said Monday.
The minister affirmed that these countries allied with Ukraine in Europe are the ones that fulfill on the ground the task that the United States has set: to weaken Russia and inflict a strategic defeat on it. “They refer to a partition of Russia (…) It is playing with fire. Undoubtedly. I am confident that sensible people will finally start to stop wholeheartedly supporting the neo-Nazi regime that the West created,” he said.
Although from the White House, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, assured that his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, and his Army will not use the US-made F-16 combat fighters against targets within Russian territory.
With information from EFE
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