Tomahawks

Supplying US-made long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine will not help end the conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has said once again that the US should provide Kiev with long-range weapons capable of striking targets deep inside Russia.

Russia’s response to a Ukrainian strike using US-made Tomahawk missiles would be “very serious, if not... overwhelming,” President Vladimir Putin told journalists on Thursday. Supplying Kiev with such long-range weapons would be “an escalation attempt,” he warned.

Prominent American political scientist John Mearsheimer has dismissed the idea that supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles could change the course of the war, saying Kyiv’s fundamental problem lies in its shortage of manpower and firepower.

Friday's White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky was “tense,” with the Ukrainian leader failing to secure deliveries of long-range Tomahawk missiles, Axios has reported, citing sources.

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has declined to comment on whether the US will send Tomahawk long-range missiles to Kiev, following a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington.

Ukraine is openly planning to use US-supplied long-range Tomahawk missiles to carry out “terrorist attacks” on Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

The US won’t solve the Ukraine conflict by sending Tomahawk missiles to Kiev, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said, warning that such a move would only escalate tensions.

US President Donald Trump has said he could talk to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about Washington’s threat to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

Ukraine could use US Tomahawk missiles to launch increasingly escalatory strikes on targets inside Russia in order to “pressure” Moscow to agree to a peace deal, an official in Kiev has claimed to The Telegraph.