The Kremlin said on Sunday that Russia was deeply concerned about the possibility of the United States supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, warning that the war had reached a dramatic moment with escalation on all sides.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that before agreeing to supply the Tomahawks, he would like to know what Ukraine plans to do with them because he does not want to escalate the war between Russia and Ukraine. He said, however, that he has “kind of made up his mind” on the matter.
The Tomahawk missiles have a range of 2,500 km, meaning Ukraine could use them for long-range attacks on Russian territory, including Moscow. According to the US Congressional Research Service, some retired Tomahawk variants can carry a nuclear warhead.
“The topic of Tomahawks is extremely worrying,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state television journalist Pavel Zarubin in comments released Sunday. “Now is actually a very dramatic time as tensions are rising on all sides.”
The war in Ukraine, the deadliest in Europe since World War II, has triggered the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and Russian officials say they are now in a “hot” conflict with the West.
Peskov said that if the Tomahawks were launched against Russia, Moscow would have to take into account that some versions of the missile could carry nuclear warheads.
“Imagine: a long-range missile is launched and flies and we know that it can be nuclear. What should the Russian Federation think? How should Russia react? Military experts abroad need to understand this,” Peskov said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously said that it was impossible to use the Tomahawks without the direct participation of US military personnel, and therefore any supply of these missiles to Ukraine would trigger a “qualitatively new escalation phase”.
The Financial Times reported Sunday that the United States has been helping Ukraine carry out long-range attacks on Russian energy facilities for months. The FT said US intelligence helps Kiev shape route planning, altitude, timing and mission decisions, allowing Ukraine’s long-range unidirectional attack drones to evade Russian air defenses.
Putin describes the war as a turning point in Moscow’s relations with the West, which he says humiliated Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 by expanding NATO and encroaching on what it sees as Moscow’s sphere of influence, including Ukraine and Georgia.
Ukraine and its allies view this invasion as an imperial-style land grab and have repeatedly vowed to defeat Russian forces.
Source: Terra
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