MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - Russia will designate F-16 fighter jets as legitimate targets if supplied to Ukraine, just like any other delivered weapon, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
"We have said many times that any hardware, any weapons used by Kiev inside and outside the zone of the special military operation - [and] we have seen what has just happened in the Belgorod region - are a legitimate target, without question," Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow.
"It seems to me that the stubborn advance of our opponents towards greater escalation is not just a key problem, but perhaps also the biggest threat to security, including their own," he said.