[HIGHLIGHTS] Putin says Russia will not attack NATO, but F-16s sent by the West will be shot down in Ukraine

Putin says Russia will not attack NATO, but F-16s sent by the West will be shot down in Ukraine. "The idea that we are going to attack some other country - Poland, the Baltic States and the Czechs are also afraid - it's complete nonsense," he says.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has triggered the deepest crisis in Russia's relations with the West since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands are some of the countries that have pledged to donate F- 16s.