Trump says may warn Putin Ukraine could get Tomahawk missiles

US President Donald Trump said Sunday helium whitethorn pass Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Ukraine could get Tomahawk cruise missiles if Moscow does not extremity its invasion.

Trump has been mulling imaginable supplies of the long-range missiles to Kyiv via European allies since his gathering with Putin successful Alaska successful August failed to nutrient a bid deal.

“I mightiness speech to him. I mightiness say, ‘look, if this warfare is not going to get settled, I’m going to nonstop them Tomahawks,'” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One erstwhile asked if helium would rise the taxable with Putin himself.

The US person said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had asked for Tomahawks erstwhile they were discussing a caller proviso of weapons for Kyiv successful a telephone connected Saturday.

“Tomahawks are a caller measurement of aggression,” added Trump, who was traveling to Israel and Egypt to propulsion for a semipermanent Gaza bid deal.

“Do they privation to person Tomahawks going successful their direction? I don’t deliberation so.”

Putin has antecedently warned against supplying Kyiv with Tomahawks, saying it would beryllium a large escalation and impact relations betwixt Washington and Moscow.

Trump has repeatedly said that the Ukraine war, present successful its 4th year, is the toughest of a fig of conflicts that helium claims to person solved since his instrumentality to powerfulness successful January.

Russia launched a full-scale penetration of pro-Western Ukraine successful February 2022.

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