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US President Donald Trump has reportedly given the green light to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles, capable of hitting targets deep inside Vladimir Putin's Russia...
Russia has warned Donald Trump that giving the green light to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles will lead to the Kremlin declaring nuclear war against the US and Britain.
New signals from Washington say Trump has authorized giving Kiev reinforced intelligence about long-range missile attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure and is calling on NATO allies to do the same.
The US is also reportedly considering the possibility of the West providing Tomahawk and Barracuda missiles for Ukrainian attacks deep into Vladimir Putin's territory, after the Kremlin ignored Trump's peaceful overtures.
The agreed objectives would allow for an escalation of Ukraine's already successful attacks on Russian refineries, pipelines, power plants and other infrastructure, to damage Putin's oil supplies and revenues.
But military analyst Colonel Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the Russian magazine National Defense, singled out the Tomahawk, which has a range of about 1,500 miles, saying such an action would trigger World War III. He claimed that such attacks could not be carried out by Ukrainians alone, but would require the military involvement of the US or Britain to hit targets inside Russia.
“From the point of view of the norms of international law, this is a 'casus belli,'” he told Readovka, adding that consequently, Russia will have to respond with retaliatory attacks and, of course, not only on the territory of Ukraine.
He told the Moscow City-owned television channel (TVC): “The Tomahawk is a high-precision weapon and can be used in both conventional and nuclear warfare. Therefore, the very fact of transferring such weapons to Ukraine means that the United Kingdom or the United States, either of which could transfer such weapons to the Zelensky regime, will automatically enter into war against the Russian Federation.”
“We will have neither the time, nor the opportunity, nor the desire to ask ourselves questions such as: which Tomahawk, nuclear or conventional, was launched from Ukrainian territory towards targets in Russia?” In fact, there has been no suggestion that the Tomahawks were armed with nuclear weapons.
Korotchenko said: "We are giving ourselves free rein to respond in any way necessary. First of all, this is a qualitative change in the status quo."
"We will use our entire arsenal of conventional and nuclear weapons to eliminate such a threat if it becomes real," he said.
He also called for immediate action before any Western deployment of Tomahawk missiles, demanding that the lights be turned off in Ukraine.
"The Zelensky regime must be deprived of electricity and fuel, then it will fall to its knees and crawl to sign a peace agreement on Russian terms," he said.
Officially, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier this week about a deployment of Tomahawk missiles: "the question is: who can launch these missiles, even if they end up in the territory of the Kiev regime?"
"Only the Ukrainians can launch them, or will the US military do it? Who is assigning the targets for these missiles? That requires a very thorough analysis."
Trump's move on intelligence is in stark contrast to his policy of returning to the White House in January and appears to be a direct result of Putin's refusal to end the war and reach a peace deal with Ukraine.
Developments came, Russia launched new massive attacks overnight in Ukraine.
They hit Bucha, an abandoned sanatorium, a neighborhood near Kiev where hundreds of people were tortured, raped and executed by Putin's forces earlier in the war. In the Kiev region, dozens of enemy drones targeted residential areas.
In Odessa, Russians struck a railway depot, wounding a train driver. The Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions were left without electricity.
Oleksiy Kuleba, the deputy prime minister, said it was “another difficult night for Ukraine” with “massive attacks” on “dozens of drones on peaceful settlements.” He warned that “Russia is trying every day to destroy one of the foundations of Ukrainian stability, our infrastructure, which holds the country together.”
"This includes railways, roads and energy. The aggressor country uses weapons that are impossible without foreign components. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen sanctions and block all supply chains." / Adapted from Daily Star /
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