{"id":220312,"date":"2025-10-17T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220312\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:52:08","slug":"trump-hasnt-closed-the-door-on-sending-tomahawk-missiles-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220312\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hasn\u2019t closed the door on sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n President Donald Trump<\/a> did not take the possibility of the US sending long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles<\/a> to Ukraine off the table during his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>, sources familiar with their conversation told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Trump is also not expected to commit to providing the potentially game changing American-made weapons in his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> at the White House on Friday, two of the sources said, though they cautioned that things can always change once the president is alone in a room with the Ukrainians.\n <\/p>\n

\n The US president, in both public and private, has appeared more willing<\/a> to allow Ukraine to obtain the long-range missiles in recent weeks, US officials said. The administration has drawn up plans to provide the weapons to Ukraine, the officials said, in case Trump gives the order, which they stress he can do at any time if he feels it is right.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump had been holding off, hoping to ascertain from Zelensky a better idea of how he planned to use them, the officials added.\n <\/p>\n

\n Zelensky and his top aides have described the weapons \u2014 which have a range of more than 1,000 miles \u2014 as potentially turning the tide in the war against Russia. And they\u2019ve said they viewed the possibility of receiving them as an attractive threat that Zelensky hoped would force Putin back to the table.\n <\/p>\n

\n And that\u2019s exactly what it appears to have done \u2014 though it remains unclear what, if anything, may have changed since Trump and Putin met in Alaska two months ago that would make the prospect of a peace agreement more likely.\n <\/p>\n

\n Roughly 24 hours before Zelensky was slated to meet with Trump in Washington, Putin made a last-ditch attempt to intervene with the American president and halt all talk of sending the lethal US weapons to Kyiv.\n <\/p>\n

\n His lengthy phone call resulted in a promise to have the two leaders meet in Budapest \u201cwithin two weeks or so,\u201d in Trump\u2019s telling \u2014 which appears to have bought Moscow more time as Trump\u2019s desire to reach a peace agreement has grown even further following his administration\u2019s success in Middle East negotiations.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump, however, did not drop his new military threats while speaking with Putin on Thursday.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI did actually say, \u2018Would you mind if I gave a couple thousand Tomahawks to your opposition?\u2019 I did say that to him. I said it just that way,\u201d Trump told reporters later that day. \u201cHe didn\u2019t like the idea.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n A Trump administration official argued it\u2019s all about leverage: \u201cWhy would he give up that leverage? He won\u2019t remove the threat until it\u2019s no longer necessary.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Another US official echoed that sentiment, telling CNN that Trump is looking to bring the war to an end and is focusing on a diplomatic approach first \u2014 suggesting the threat of sending Tomahawks to Ukraine is one tool he has at his disposal as part of that effort.\n <\/p>\n

\n Putin is said to have stressed during the call that Tomahawks \u2013 which have the range to target major Russian cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg \u2013 would have no significant impact on the battlefield, CNN previously reported.<\/a> But they would damage the US-Russian relationship, he argued.\n <\/p>\n

\n Putin has previously argued that if Trump chooses to send the long-range missiles to Ukraine, it would completely alter the level of US involvement in the war thus far, noting that the weapons would likely require Americans to operate them.\n <\/p>\n

\n The risk of escalation is also a concern among some US officials, though others said previous steps that appeared escalatory \u2014 like allowing Ukraine to have more powerful missile systems or weapons \u2014 did not significantly escalate the conflict.\n <\/p>\n

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