Supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets poses a risk of causing a nuclear conflict, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned.
NATO member states are currently training Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16s ahead of the expected transfer of the aircraft. Kiev has been asking for the Western fighter jets for months, saying they were needed to combat Russian air superiority.
”An accidental, unintentional outbreak of a nuclear conflict is not something to be discarded, which is why all those machinations around Ukraine are dangerous,” Medvedev said in an extensive interview with Russian journalists, as quoted by TASS on Thursday.
The deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council cited the US-designed aircraft as a possible trigger, saying that Kiev wants them despite having no ground infrastructure to operate them, RT reported.
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