"It will burn", Putin comments on the West sending F-16 fighters to Kiev: 

Baghdad-INA 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said, on Friday, that the "F-16" fighters that the West will send to Kiev will "burn", while the United States allowed the delivery of these planes to Ukrainian forces.

Last month, the United States, which has long refused to deliver fighters to avoid escalating the conflict, gave the green light to deliver the F-16s that Kiev has constantly demanded.

The date and number of delivery of these US-made aircraft has not been determined at this stage, and Brussels announced at the end of May that Poland had begun training Ukrainian pilots.

Putin said at an economic forum in St. Petersburg (northwestern Russia): "The tanks (delivered by NATO to Ukraine) are burning and the F-16s will suffer the same fate.".

Among the questions that will also arise in the event of the delivery of F-16s to Ukraine is finding and maintaining safe bases for takeoff and landing, at a time when Russia bombed many Ukrainian airports.

The idea of ​​deploying these aircraft in the air bases of neighboring countries supporting Ukraine is sometimes proposed.

Putin stressed that if the planes that will be delivered to Kiev are deployed "in bases outside Ukraine, we will see what to do about these bases and how to hit them.".