{"id":282349,"date":"2024-02-24T06:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T06:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282349"},"modified":"2024-02-25T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T10:15:14","slug":"ukraines-potential-f-16-use-includes-hitting-targets-in-russia-stoltenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282349","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s potential F-16 use includes hitting targets in Russia \u2013 Stoltenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The New Voice of Ukraine \u2013 Feb 22, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Ukraine will have the right to defend itself, including the ability to strike Russian military targets within Russia that are part of the invasion efforts, once <a href=\"https:\/\/english.nv.ua\/nation\/f-16-coalition-wants-to-give-more-f-16-fighter-jets-to-ukraine-50374091.html\">Ukraine receives F-16 fighter jets from its allies<\/a>, stated NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/nato-stoltenberg-interview-russia-navalny-ukraine-war\/32828617.html?fbclid=IwAR1j-lOySxgD49pyiYub6ZDsT7BbvF_sFyEF_xAPR6cOf5LFcq4W513Fw2Y\">Radio Liberty<\/a> interview on Feb. 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg emphasized the eagerness of Ukraine&#8217;s allies to deploy the F-16s swiftly but noted the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/english.nv.ua\/nation\/ukraine-air-force-prepares-infrastructure-while-partners-consider-timing-for-upcoming-f-16-transfers-50394017.html\">comprehensive training for pilots<\/a> and extensive preparation for maintenance crews and support staff to maximize the jets&#8217; impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I think we have to listen to the military experts exactly when we will be ready to or when allies will be ready to start sending and delivering the F-16s,\u201d he said. \u201cThe sooner the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine constitutes aggression, granting Ukraine the right to defend itself, even by striking legitimate Russian military targets outside of Ukraine&#8217;s borders, added Stoltenberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.nv.ua\/nation\/ukraine-will-be-able-to-strike-russian-military-targets-outside-ukraine-with-f-16s-stoltenberg-50394995.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is being put into place for a wider conflict. Ukrainian pilots will have completed their training on Western-supplied F-16s by summer 2024 and NATO chief Stoltenberg has given the go-ahead for strikes on Russia. Moscow will naturally protect itself with counter-strikes and from that point on anything can happen <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282349"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282428,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282349\/revisions\/282428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}