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Russia’s Warnings Grow More Stark as Trump Considers New Missiles for Ukraine
Trump has 'sort of made a decision' on supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which could target nearly 2,000 Russian military sites, pending review of target lists.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump said he has `sort of made a decision` about Tomahawk transfers but wants to see the target list first.
- Months of pressure from Kyiv, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's UN request last month, pushed Washington to reconsider long-range missile transfers, as Volker said, "He made Trump look weak and Trump doesn't like looking weak, so this is now a personal issue for him."
- Tomahawk cruise missiles can reach targets between 500 and 2,500 kilometers with warheads around 400-450 kilograms, the ISW estimates 1,945 Russian facilities lie within range, and US Vice President J.D. Vance said they cost $1.3 million each.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Sunday that supplying Tomahawks would escalate tensions and damage ties, while U.S. administration officials fear needing direct American involvement and losing missile control.
- Ukraine will first need to build ground-launch infrastructure because Tomahawks are normally launched from submarines and surface ships, even as Kyiv unveils the Flamingo cruise missile and cites Alabuga as a key target.
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The Kyiv Independent
einnews.comWhy Tomahawks for Ukraine would be a 'real headache for Russia'
Since September, talk has been growing about whether the U.S. might finally supply Ukraine with the long-requested Tomahawk cruise missiles — and on Oct. 6, Donald Trump said he had "kind of made the decision." "I think I want to find out what they're doing with them, where they're sending them, I guess. I have to ask that question," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The Tomahawk is a subsonic, long-range cruise missile designed for prec
Stars and Stripes
The Washington PostRussia’s warnings grow more stark as Trump considers new missiles for Ukraine
Donald Trump presented the delivery of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine as a realistic perspective. The US President said on Monday that he had made "something like a decision", but wanted to ask some questions about Kyyiv's planned deployments with the far-reaching US weapon system. Putin had then declared that their handover endangered the reanimated bilateral relations with the US.
It is impossible for US President Donald Trump not to understand the consequences of the possible delivery of long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump said he would like to know what Ukraine intends to do with the Tomahawk rockets, manufactured by the US, before the Washington administration agrees to provide them to Kiev,...
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