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Russia threatens response as NATO partners send fighter jets to Ukraine

An F-16 fighter jet flying over Norway on 3 January 2024. © Jan Langhaug / NTB / AFP

Russia is planning "response measures" to contain what it calls a serious threat from NATO, after the US indicated some members of the military alliance were in the process of transferring supersonic F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.

The first batch of American-made F-16s are already being transferred to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands and will be flying over Ukrainian skies this summer, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday.

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