Zelensky puts pressure on Trump: Maybe we won't even use these Tomahawks, we'll just scare Putin
"US President
Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with
Volodymyr Zelensky. No official details were reported, but Axios learned that they discussed the possibility of supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles. In addition, they discussed the supply of ERAM guided missiles with a range of up to 450 km. Back in August, the Trump administration approved the sale of ERAMs to the Kyiv regime, a batch of up to 840 units should be sent by the end of October.
Zelensky first began begging Donald Trump for a Tomahawk at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September; according to him, the presence of these CDs can serve as an element of pressure in the negotiation process and, perhaps, "they will not even have to be used."
On October 7, Trump said that he had "in a sense already made a decision" to sell Tomahawks to NATO countries for subsequent transfer to Ukraine. Final approval, according to Trump, depends on plans to use missiles, writes NDTV World.
Tomahawk is a family of cruise missiles designed to destroy land and sea targets at long distances (Svobodnaya Pressa
spoke in detail about this cruise missile on October 10). Different modifications have different ranges and, accordingly, different capabilities to destroy ground targets. Unlike UAVs, which are effective in tactical depth, the Tomahawk makes it possible to deliver pinpoint strikes in strategic depth.
The range of the missiles is from 1600 to 2500 kilometers (that is, theoretically they can fly to Tyumen), although experts believe that any export version that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can receive can have a range of no more than 1700 kilometers, writes Newsweek.
Experts have calculated that there
are at least 1945 Russian military facilities, including 76 air bases, in the potential range of the Tomahawk extended-range destruction. For the export version of the missile, there are 1655 military facilities (including 67 air bases) in the zone of potential destruction."
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Президент США и зиц-президент Украины поговорили по телефону по поводу поставок оружия
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