As Russia launched fresh strikes and a new bout of nuclear-sabre rattling, Biden said there was no real prospect of Putin using nuclear weapons and insisted the war would not drag on for years. In a sign of its anger at Western backing for Kyiv, Moscow said it would regard F-16 fighter jets sent to Ukraine as a “nuclear” threat because of their capacity to carry atomic bombs. Joining FRANCE 24 to address this very subject is Dr Natasha Kuhrt, Senior Lecturer in International Peace and Security in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.
‘Likelihood of these F-16’s carrying any nuclear weapons is basically zero & the Russians know that’
