Author: Ashif Ali

He envisages a series of possibilities or stages, from Mr Trump changing his mind and not supplying them at all, or Mr Trump allowing their export but not permitting their use, to allowing an escalating scale of ranges and targets. He then added that he would want to know what Ukraine planned to do with them first, for fear that the long-range missiles would represent an escalation. Deliveries of US Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could take months and they might never leave their launchers, but that doesn’t mean they won’t have an impact on Moscow. “Already at the front, more than 40% of the weapons used are weapons produced in Ukraine or with Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in a speech. Trump said earlier this week that he would want to know what Ukraine planned to do with Tomahawks before agreeing to provide them because he did not want to escalate the war between Russia and Ukraine. Russia will shoot down any Tomahawk...