Russia Warns West 'playing with fire' Over F16 Jets for Ukraine

AFP,
Published 2023 May 28 Sunday

MOSCOW : Russia's top diplomat warned Sunday that Western nations were "playing with fire" by agreeing to provide Ukraine with US-made F16 fighter jets, calling it "an unacceptable escalation" of the conflict.

"It's playing with fire, without a doubt," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an excerpt from a Russian TV interview posted on social media, denouncing an attempt to "weaken Russia" by "Washington, London and their satellites in the EU".



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