Vladimir Putin: If West delivers F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, they would become a target for Russia's armed forces. Putin: Neither Poland nor the Baltic states nor the Czech Republic need to fear an attack.
The start of the Ukraine War in February 2022 triggered the most serious crisis in Russia's relations with the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Russia will take this into account when “planning combat operations” and will be “destroyed, as is already happening with tanks and other weapon systems”