F-16 fighter jets shot down: Putin threatens to attack NATO airfields. Ukraine has been trying to get the fighter jets from allied nations for many months.

Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands have now agreed to make around 60 of the aircraft available. The start of the Ukraine War in February 2022 triggered the most serious crisis in Russia's relations with the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The F-16 can carry nuclear weapons - Russia will take this into account when “planning combat operations”