{"id":32523,"date":"2023-06-06T03:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32523"},"modified":"2023-06-06T03:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T03:24:35","slug":"russia-says-u-s-built-f-16s-could-accommodate-nuclear-weapons-if-sent-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32523","title":{"rendered":"Russia says U.S.-built F-16s could ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons if sent to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reuters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 6 – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets can ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons and warned that supplying Kyiv with them will escalate the conflict further.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n

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

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has long appealed<\/a> 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\n\n\n

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

But U.S. National Security adviser Jake Sullivan said there was no final decision on Washington sending aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters: June 6 – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets can ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons and warned that supplying Kyiv with them will escalate the conflict further. “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. “If they do not understand this, then they are worthless as military strategists and planners.” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has long appealed for the F-16 jets, saying their appearance… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32525,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32523\/revisions\/32525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}