"Nonsense": Putin rules out attacks on NATO countries
Speaking at a visit to an air base late Wednesday to military pilots, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had no intention of starting a war with NATO. He called the claim that Russia would attack a NATO member country "sheer nonsense." When asked about F-16 fighter jets, which the West has pledged to send to Ukraine, Putin said that the aircrafts would not dramatically alter the situation. At the same meeting, he warned Ukraine’s Western allies against providing air bases in their countries from where the F-16s could launch sorties against the Kremlin's forces, saying those base...