Russia Ukrainian Nuclear Conflict
Supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets poses a risk of causing a nuclear conflict, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has 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.
The deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council cited the US-designed aircraft as a possible trigger, noting that Kiev wants them despite having no ground infrastructure to operate them.
”So if one of those planes takes off from a NATO nation on a Ukrainian mission – what would that be? An attack on Russia. I shall not describe what could happen next,” he said. “Such a development may not be even sanctioned by the NATO leadership and the US.”
Russian officials previously warned that delivering F-16s to Ukraine would be highly problematic, considering that the jets can deploy nuclear gravity bombs.
Medvedev said Russia’s standoff with the US and its allies was not at a stage that would force people to hide in a nuclear shelter, but described it as worse than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The doomsday clock “is ticking” and has “sped up considerably,” he added.
-
4:18
The American Angle: Your Trusted Source for USA News
1 year agoUkraine on the Brink: The Role of Russian Nukes in Belarus and the Escalating Conflict Explained
8 -
1:23
B.C. Begley
2 months agoUkraine May Have Just Crossed Putin's Nuclear Red Line
74 -
4:58
RAVries
11 months agoRussia to view F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine as threat in nuclear sphere — Lavrov
5372 -
16:45
hankswank68
11 months agoIs nuclear war with Russia IMMINENT?
678 -
8:58
Russian News
1 year agoWill there be a nuclear war?! Lavrov, Russia, Ukraine, United States
36 -
8:58
Russian News
1 year agoWill there be a nuclear war?! Lavrov, Russia, Ukraine, United States. RU
72 -
5:00
Mark Levin Show
2 years agoPutin’s Nuclear Threat
4.63K83 -
0:17
bvnrt
1 year agoPotential US Response If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons In Ukraine
4.26K1 -
0:37
LKStream
1 year agoRussian nuclear weapons Ukraine
13 -
1:55
KaziRahman
1 year agoRussia Ukraine war Atomic assault
11