US EditionPutin praises Trump but warns supplies of US long-range missiles to Ukraine will badly hurt ties
Ukraine’s air defense is strengthened by an Israeli-supplied US-made Patriot system in operation, with two more systems arriving this fall to counter intensified Russian attacks.
- Putin praised Trump but warned that supplying US Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would badly hurt Russia-US ties.
- Putin said Russian air defenses would adapt to the Tomahawk threat, and he warned the West against trying to seize Russian oil tankers, calling it piracy.
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Putin warns of ‘new escalation’ if US supplies weapons to Kyiv
Vladimir Putin has warned the US that supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles will damage relations between Washington and Moscow. Speaking on Thursday (2 October), the Russian president praised Donald Trump as a “comfortable conversationalist” who “listens, hears, and responds” following their Alaska summit in August. However, he said that deployment of US Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine “would mark a completely new, qualitatively new st…
Russia's head of state Putin has warned the US of a possible delivery of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Such a step meant a qualitatively completely new level of escalation, Putin said at an event in Sochi.
Putin Warns US About Sending Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the US that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington but will not change the situation on the battlefield, where the Russian army is making steady advances. The potential supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv would signal...
By changing their trajectory, Russian missiles are reported to be able to evade the Patriot air defense system stationed in Ukraine more and more often. The launch rate of ballistic missiles by the US Patriot system has dropped dramatically.
Putin Warns of ‘New Stage of Escalation’
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the potential supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine would mark a “completely new stage of escalation” between Washington and Moscow, CNBC reports. His comments come after a series of reported incursions into European airspace in recent weeks.
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