For Ukraine to liberate its country from Russian occupation, it needs 48 F-16 fighter jets from the West (as reported). Now Russia is lashing out again with sharp words. “This is playing with fire,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said angrily on Russian propaganda television.
“It is playing with fire. There is no doubt about it,” Lavrov said indignantly in an interview with Russian television, excerpts of which the interviewer Pavel Sarubin published on online networks on Sunday.
Usual reversal of perpetrator and victim
“This is an unacceptable escalation,” Lavrov continued to denounce. It is run by “Washington, London and their satellites within the EU” and aims to “weaken Russia”. With Ukraine’s military support, the West wants to “inflict a strategic defeat” on Russia and “dismember” its country, the foreign minister repeated rhetoric from the Russian leadership.
On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted an excerpt from the program ‘Moscow. Kremlin. Putin’ shared. In it, Lavrov drew attention to the fact that the United States should not think it was safe – because the great geographical distance and the Atlantic Ocean did not protect them either. World War III could happen.
Western states are supplying Kiev with large quantities of arms and ammunition in light of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. However, fearing an escalation of the conflict, they had refused to supply fighter jets to Ukraine for more than a year. However, a week and a half ago, the US government gave the green light for the delivery of US-made F-16 aircraft to Ukraine.
No attacks on Russian territory
According to US President Joe Biden, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has “categorically assured” that Ukraine will carry out attacks on Russian territory with the F-16s. When and how many machines of this type will be delivered to Ukraine by the West has not yet been determined. In addition, Ukrainian pilots would need several months of training to fly the jets.
Several European countries have already agreed to this, including Poland and the Netherlands. Germany has no F-16 jets.
Source: Krone
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