Zelenskyy vows to only use Tomahawks against Russian military targets

The Kremlin has warned of the hazard of escalation if Kyiv is provided with the US-built long-range missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his state would lone usage long-range Tomahawk missiles against Russian subject targets, arsenic the Kremlin expressed alarm implicit Washington’s imaginable program to connection the weapons to Kyiv.

Zelenskyy’s remark was aired by Fox News connected Sunday, the aforesaid time helium spoke to US President Donald Trump.

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Writing connected X, the Ukrainian president called his latest speech with Trump “very productive”, noting that they had discussed strengthening his country’s “air defence, resilience, and long-range capabilities”. It was the 2nd clip the brace had spoken successful arsenic galore days.

On Monday, Trump said helium would lone hold to supply Kyiv with Tomahawks if helium knew what it planned to bash with them. He added, without giving further details, that helium had “sort of made a decision” implicit the issue.

Given that their scope is 2,500km (1,550 miles), Ukraine could usage the weapons to onslaught heavy wrong Russia.

In comments published connected Sunday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the taxable was of “extreme concern” to Russia.

“Now is truly a precise melodramatic infinitesimal successful presumption of the information that tensions are escalating from each sides,” helium told Russian authorities tv newsman Pavel Zarubin.

Peskov said Moscow would person to carnivore successful caput that immoderate versions of the rocket are capable to transportation atomic warheads.

The Kremlin spokesperson’s remarks came arsenic French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the latest Russian strikes connected Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure.

After speaking with Zelenskyy connected Sunday, Macron said: “As the statement reached successful Gaza offers a glimmer of anticipation for bid successful the Middle East, the warfare successful Ukraine excessively indispensable travel to an end.”

“If Russia persists successful its obstinate warmongering and its refusal to travel to the negotiating table, it volition person to wage the price,” helium said.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy said successful a Facebook station that helium had urged Macron to springiness Ukraine much missiles and aerial defence systems, stressing that Russia was expanding its bombardments portion the world’s absorption was elsewhere.

“Russia is present taking vantage of the infinitesimal — the information that the Middle East and home issues successful each state are getting maximum attention,” Zelensky said successful a readout of his telephone with Macron.

As it has done before, Russia is targeting Ukrainian vigor infrastructure successful an effort to cripple the assemblage earlier winter.

In the past week alone, Russia has launched “more than 3,100 drones, 92 missiles, and astir 1,360 glide bombs” astatine Ukraine, according to Zelenskyy.

Two employees of Ukraine’s largest backstage vigor company, DTEK, were injured astatine a substation successful Kyiv state successful overnight attacks connected Sunday, according to the determination governor.

On Friday, Russia carried retired what Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko described arsenic “one of the largest concentrated strikes” against Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure, starring to blackouts crossed the country.