The president of the United States, Donald Trump, wants to maintain and even extend his last January. During the flight to Israel and Egypt to participate in the ceremony that aims to tie down the plan to end the war in Gaza, the Republican leader recalled that the next milestone on that path is intended to be putting an end to . As part of that plan, Trump has suggested that he could tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will allow Tomahawk missiles to be sent to kyiv if the war in Ukraine does not end.
“[A Ucrania] . To be honest, I might have to talk to Russia about the Tomahawks. Do they want to have Tomahawk missiles heading their way? “I don’t think so,” he told reporters from the presidential plane.
As in the Middle East – where – the language of weapons is essential for Trump to impose his criteria. For this reason, this Monday he once again put the threat to Putin on the table. It is something that the United States, at the request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, already did for the first time at the end of September during the UN General Assembly in New York.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Trump plan to hold a “working lunch” in Washington this coming Friday, according to a White House official this Monday. Both leaders held talks both on Saturday and Sunday, according to US government sources.
Zelensky celebrated the diplomatic achievement, still uncertain, of the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza with a message in X. “When peace is achieved in one part of the world, hope is revived in other regions,” he wrote. “If a ceasefire and peace has been achieved in the Middle East, the leadership and determination of global actors can certainly work for us in Ukraine as well.”
In previous days, the Ukrainian president had declared that if Trump, who promised to end the war in Ukraine on his first day in the Oval Office, achieved a ceasefire with Russia, kyiv would not hesitate to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Republican has been claiming for years that he deserves it. Last Friday he was left without it again, when the Norwegian committee chose to award the Venezuelan opponent María Corina Machado.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov did not want to comment on Trump’s threat of more missiles for Ukraine, although he did recall that the use of this type of weaponry, with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers, would require the participation of US troops, according to Reuters. Previously, the former president had warned that the supply of Tomahawks, with the capacity to carry nuclear warheads, could have dire consequences for everyone. Especially for Trump.
The Republican’s announcement coincides with the visit to kyiv of the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, where he announced the first 10 million euros to provide funds to the and “guarantee that those responsible for the crimes of aggression do not escape justice.”
According to Kallas, the war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine are “evident.” “Unpunished crimes only encourage new atrocities,” added the head of European diplomacy, who arrives in Ukraine at a time when the Zelensky Government is demanding more financial and military aid, as well as support to contain the attacks against the energy sector that Moscow is carrying out on the eve of the coldest months of the year. In parallel, the local army has intensified its operations since August.
The EU is aware that Moscow, the head of European diplomacy recalled during a speech at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which she was accompanied by her Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha. In this sense, Kallas has announced the mobilization of 800 million euros to confront this offensive that follows a Russian strategy already deployed in previous winters since it launched the great invasion in February 2022.
Shelters and winter equipment
The high representative of the Twenty-seven has also reported the sending of another 100 million euros for generators, shelters and winter equipment. In addition, it has put 2 billion on the table for drones, the weapon that has gained the most prominence in the conflict in recent months. Another six million will be allocated to confront what the Russian authorities are carrying out and to . At the same time, he has insisted that they are trying to make it Russia, thanks to its frozen assets, and not Brussels that bears the main financial burden of the war.
Getting the guns to silence, as Trump aspires, means something very different from putting an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since Moscow authorities hold power in approximately 20% of the territory of its neighboring country since its troops began advancing in 2014 on the Crimean peninsula and in the eastern region of Donbas, made up of Lugansk and Donetsk. That, not to mention the crimes that are being committed. As in the case of Israel and Hamas, it is not something that will happen in the short term. In any case, Brussels wants to promote this process, hence the announcement of those first ten million.
For months, Trump has remained aligned with Putin, who has even gone so far as to regret that the American . But, suddenly, as happens with the frequent changes of criteria of the American president, he announced through his social network, Truth, that kyiv could recover all that territory invaded by Moscow. He did this almost simultaneously with the announcement of the Tomahawk missiles.
Last Friday, in another demonstration of the unpredictable swings of the White House on this matter, the first lady, Melania Trump, assured that she has maintained an “open channel of communication” with Putin since August, when the Russian and American presidents met in Alaska. The goal: to repatriate Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia. Some, the first lady said, have already been returned. “In fact, eight children have been reunited with their families in the last 24 hours,” he added.
In kyiv, Kallas recalled those words from Trump while underlining that, with the support of the EU and NATO, the Russian offensive during the summer has been a failure, since “its limited territorial advances have been accompanied by a high number of victims and a high cost.”
This week, a Ukrainian delegation headed by the Prime Minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, together with the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, and the representative for sanctions policy, Vladyslav Vlasyuk, will hold several meetings precisely in the United States. On the agenda, issues such as strengthening anti-aircraft defense and offensive capabilities; strengthening energy infrastructure to strengthen resilience in the face of winter; or sanctions to try to increase pressure on Russia, Yermak recalled this Monday
