The expert noted that the Russian attacks on airfields preparing to receive the F-16s were a warning to NATO and also slowed down the process of transferring fighters.
“If the F-16s are really based at this airfield, then the Russians will be able to attack them,” Mercouris said.
The day before, one of the targets of the Russian Kinzhal missiles was a military airfield in the Lvov region, where preparations to receive F-16 fighters were completed.
On March 22, it became known that one of the Russian attacks hit a military airfield in the city of Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region, where preparations were also being made to receive F-16 aircraft.
