{"id":329490,"date":"2023-06-06T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/06\/06\/russia-says-us-f-16-jets-could-carry-nuclear-weapons-if-sent-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:40:00","slug":"russia-says-us-f-16-jets-could-carry-nuclear-weapons-if-sent-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/06\/06\/russia-says-us-f-16-jets-could-carry-nuclear-weapons-if-sent-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says US’ F-16 Jets Could Carry Nuclear Weapons If Sent To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US has said there was no final decision on Washington sending the aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that US-built F-16 fighter jets can ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons and warned that supplying Kyiv with them will escalate the conflict further.<\/p>\n

“We must keep in mind that one of the modifications of the F-16 can ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons,” Lavrov said in a speech at a military base in Dushanbe in Tajikistan, according to a transcript on the ministry’s website.<\/p>\n

“If they do not understand this, then they are worthless as military strategists and planners.”<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has long appealed for the F-16 jets, saying their appearance with Ukrainian pilots would be a sure signal from the world that Russia’s invasion would end in defeat.<\/p>\n

US President Joe Biden told G7 leaders last month that Washington supported joint allied training programmes for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighters.<\/p>\n

But US National Security adviser Jake Sullivan said there was no final decision on Washington sending aircraft.<\/p>\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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