The third phase of exercises by Russia’s non-strategic nuclear forces could be Russia’s response to the appearance of F-16s in Ukraine, former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor wrote on social network X.
The day before, the Bloomberg news agency quoted sources familiar with the situation as saying that the first “small” batch of US F-16 fighter jets transferred by NATO countries had arrived in Ukraine.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said that Ukrainian authorities do not intend to officially confirm the arrival of the F-16s.
“Action: the first American-made F-16 fighter jets have arrived in Ukraine, according to Bloomberg. Response: Russia begins the third stage of the exercise of non-strategic nuclear forces”, – writes Douglas McGregor.
We will remind, earlier Vladimir Putin allowed the creation of a sanitary zone on the territory of Ukraine. It can take place on the current Ukrainian territories, should be difficult to overcome for means of defeat, primarily Western-made.
