Russia should 'prepare appropriate countermeasures,' one state commentator said.
"We have to get ready now," Khodarenok told the panelists on the show before Russian propagandist Igor Korotchenko added that"there will be deliveries of fighter jets."
F-16 fighter jets take part in the NATO Air Shielding exercise near the air base in Łask, central Poland, on October 12, 2022. President Joe Biden has ruled out sending the single-engine multirole fighters, but Poland and France have sent different signals to Kyiv."We must proceed from this and now prepare appropriate countermeasures at the military level," he continued.Ukraine stepped up its calls for fighter jets.
Yuriy Sak, an advisor to Ukraine's defense minister Oleksiy Reznikov, said that securing the fighter jets would be the"next big hurdle" for Kyiv. "Fourth-generation aircraft, this is what we want," Sak told Reuters, adding that Ukraine was not limiting its hopes to Other jets mentioned in discussions around fighter jets include F-35s, France's Rafale jet, Eurofighters, and Sweden's Gripen jets.Referencing initial Western reluctance to send heavy artillery, HIMARS , and main battle tanks, Sak said:"Apart from nuclear weapons, there is nothing left that we will not get."
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