{"id":6262,"date":"2025-10-22T23:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:45:35","slug":"us-wont-fire-tomahawks-for-ukraine-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/us-wont-fire-tomahawks-for-ukraine-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"US won\u2019t fire Tomahawks for Ukraine \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s forces would not be able to operate long-range missiles without Washington\u2019s direct involvement, the president has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US will not help Ukraine fire long-range Tomahawk missiles at Russian forces, President Donald Trump has said, adding that training Kiev’s troops to operate the weapon would take many months.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Wednesday, Trump did not say whether the US might eventually provide Kiev with the missiles – which have a maximum range of around 2,500km (1,550 miles) – but stressed that the weapon required long and intensive training.<\/p>\n

“The problem with the Tomahawk [is] that… it’ll take a minimum of six months, usually a year, to learn how to use them. They’re highly complex,”<\/em> Trump said. “So the only way a Tomahawk is going to be shot is if we shot it, and we’re not going to do that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“We know how to use it, and we’re not going to be teaching other people,”<\/em> the US president added. Trump earlier cautioned that allowing Ukraine to conduct strikes deep into Russia with long-range missiles could lead to “an escalation.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against supplying the long-range weapon to Ukraine, saying that it would be “impossible to use Tomahawks without the direct participation of American military personnel.”<\/em> He also warned such deliveries would “severely undermine the prospects of a peaceful settlement”<\/em> and damage relations between Moscow and Washington.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal cited unnamed US officials as saying that the Trump administration had lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s use of certain long-range missiles supplied by the West.<\/p>\n

The US leader, however, quickly dismissed the report as “FAKE NEWS,”<\/em> adding that Washington “has nothing to do with those missiles, wherever they may come from, or what Ukraine does with them!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Ukraine has long requested Tomahawk missiles, with the topic discussed during a meeting between Trump and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky at the White House last week. After the talks, the Ukrainian leader declined<\/a> to comment on the issue, although an Axios report<\/a> described the meeting as “bad,”<\/em> saying Kiev had failed to secure Tomahawk deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s forces would not be able to operate long-range missiles without Washington\u2019s direct involvement, the president has said The US will not help Ukraine fire long-range Tomahawk missiles at Russian forces, President Donald Trump has said, adding that training Kiev’s troops to operate the weapon would take many months. Speaking…<\/p>\n

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