{"id":494249,"date":"2025-10-12T18:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494249\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:47:14","slug":"zelenskyy-vows-to-only-use-tomahawks-against-russian-military-targets-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494249\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy vows to only use Tomahawks against Russian military targets | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kremlin has warned of the risk of escalation if Kyiv is provided with the US-built long-range missiles.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his country would only use long-range Tomahawk missiles against Russian military targets, as the Kremlin expressed alarm over Washington\u2019s potential plan to offer the weapons to Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy\u2019s comment was aired by Fox News on Sunday, the same day he spoke to US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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Writing on X, the Ukrainian president called his latest conversation with Trump \u201cvery productive\u201d, noting that they had discussed strengthening his country\u2019s \u201cair defence, resilience, and long-range capabilities\u201d. It was the second time the pair had spoken in as many days<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump said he would only agree to provide Kyiv with Tomahawks if he knew what it planned to do with them. He added, without giving further details, that he had \u201csort of made a decision\u201d over the issue.<\/p>\n

Given that their range is 2,500km (1,550 miles), Ukraine could use the weapons to strike deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n

In comments published on Sunday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the topic was of \u201cextreme concern\u201d to Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow is really a very dramatic moment in terms of the fact that tensions are escalating from all sides,\u201d he told Russian state television reporter Pavel Zarubin.<\/p>\n

Peskov said Moscow would have to bear in mind that some versions of the missile are able to carry nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin spokesperson\u2019s remarks came as French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the latest Russian strikes on Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

After speaking with Zelenskyy on Sunday, Macron said: \u201cAs the agreement reached in Gaza offers a glimmer of hope for peace in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine too must come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Russia persists in its obstinate warmongering and its refusal to come to the negotiating table, it will have to pay the price,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy said in a Facebook post that he had urged Macron to give Ukraine more missiles and air defence systems, stressing that Russia was increasing its bombardments while the world\u2019s focus was elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is now taking advantage of the moment \u2014 the fact that the Middle East and domestic issues in every country are getting maximum attention,\u201d Zelensky said in a readout of his call with Macron.<\/p>\n

As it has done before, Russia is targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure in an attempt to cripple the sector before winter.<\/p>\n

In the past week alone, Russia has launched \u201cmore than 3,100 drones, 92 missiles, and around 1,360 glide bombs\u201d at Ukraine, according to Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

Two employees of Ukraine\u2019s largest private energy company, DTEK, were injured at a substation in Kyiv province in overnight attacks on Sunday, according to the regional governor.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Russia carried out what Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko described as \u201cone of the largest concentrated strikes\u201d against Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure, leading to blackouts across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kremlin has warned of the risk of escalation if Kyiv is provided with the US-built long-range missiles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[299,12,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-494249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115362689480289969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}