Russia’s Defense Ministry warned Ukraine that its new fleet of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets is considered a “nuclear-capable” threat and that it will “consider this step of the United States and NATO as a purposeful provocation.”
“We cannot ignore the fact that these planes are dual-purpose platforms that can be used both for nuclear and non-nuclear tasks,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday, reported Newsweek. “No matter what modification of the aircraft will be supplied [to Ukraine] we will treat them as nuclear-capable.”
The warning comes as the Foreign Ministry also informed Nigel Casey, the British ambassador to Russia, that if Ukraine uses British weapons in attacks on Russian territory, Moscow could respond with hits on British military facilities and equipment in Ukraine and elsewhere, the publication reported.
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