Russia will create “problems” for Europe if Donald Trump allows Tomahawk missiles to be sent to Ukraine, a senior Russian official has said.
This week, the US president stated that he had “sort of” decided whether to allow Ukraine’s European allies to provide Kyiv with the subsonic long-range cruise missiles.
Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Russian parliament’s defence committee, suggested that Moscow would retaliate against any country that supplies the missiles to Ukraine.
“We know these missiles very well — how they fly, how to shoot them down; we worked with them in Syria, so there is nothing new. The only problems will be for those who supply them and those who use them; that’s where the problems will be,” he said.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister also warned Washington against allowing Tomahawk missiles to be sent to Ukraine, describing it as a potentially “qualitative” change in US involvement in the war.
Trump said he wants to know what Ukraine plans to do with the Tomahawks before agreeing to provide them.