West needs to think hard about consequences of giving F-16s to Ukraine — Russian diplomat
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According to Russia’s deputy envoy to the OSCE Alexander Volgaryov, if these fighter jets take off from the territory of NATO member countries and are used in the Ukrainian conflict, Moscow will regard this as a conscious step toward escalation and “de facto direct participation in the armed confrontation”