Trump Says US May Send Tomahawks to Ukraine If Russia Persists With the War

President Donald Trump said the Tomahawks would be ‘a new step of aggression’ if they were provided to Ukraine.

A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Cape St. George on March 23, 2003. Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Kenneth Moll/U.S. Navy via Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Oct. 12 that he may authorize sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Russia refuses to end the war there.

Trump told reporters that he had talked to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the weapons. He said the long-range missiles would be sold to NATO, which would then provide them to Ukraine.