“Ukraine really needs Patriot missiles. Now they would like to get Tomahawk missiles. We'll see. I may have to talk to Russia about this – do they want Tomahawks to fly in their direction. Tomahawk missiles are a new step in aggression. They are an incredible, very powerful weapon,” Trump said.
He said that he might talk to the illegitimate president of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and tell him that he would send missiles to Ukraine if he did not stop the war. Trump says Russia “doesn't need” Kyiv to get Tomahawk.
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Ukraine asks the United States to transfer Tomahawk cruise missiles to it. Trump said on October 6 that he needed to know that the Ukrainians what they will do with Tomahawk – “where to send them.”
US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles have a much longer range than the missiles Ukraine has received so far and are better suited for striking targets such as weapons depots than the drones that Ukraine is currently using to strike Russia over long distances, he said. Axios.
The Kremlin noted that supplies of American Tomahawks to Ukraine would lead to the destruction of relations between the Russian Federation and the United States, “at least the positive trends in relations.”
The Russian response to Tomahawk in Ukraine will be strengthening the Russian air defense system, Putin said on October 10. He also announced the appearance of a supposedly “new type of weapon” in the Russian Federation.
