“Volodymyr Putin’s phone call with Donald Trump on October 16 likely dashed Ukraine’s hopes of acquiring long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi was in Washington to discuss the issue with the US leader. Top Kremlin aide Yuriy Ushakov said that Putin urged Trump not to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, a weapon that”, — write on: ua.news
Volodymyr Putin’s phone call with Donald Trump on October 16 likely dashed Ukraine’s hopes of acquiring long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi was in Washington to discuss the issue with the US leader.
The Kremlin’s chief aide, Yuriy Ushakov, said that Putin urged Trump not to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, a weapon that Kyiv has long sought for long-range strikes, including on Moscow.
The conversation, which lasted more than two and a half hours, undermines the momentum created by Zelensky in relations with Trump, and now the American leader is unlikely to provide significant support to Ukraine before his own meeting with Putin, notes The Guardian.
John Forman, the former British defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv, added that Zelenskyi’s meeting with Trump is now “completely overshadowed and superseded by the meeting in Budapest.”
The publication also notes that Trump hinted at the possibility of holding talks between Putin and Zelensky in an indirect mode, which contradicts the Ukrainian president’s long-standing goal of meeting the Russian leader face-to-face to end the war.
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