Trump will speak with Putin this Thursday before his meeting with Zelensky on Friday focused on Tomahawk missiles

The president of the United States, Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putinwill speak this Thursday, one day before the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, visit the White House.

The Ukrainian president travels to Washington to present the Republican with aa new strategy to pressure Russia based, among other things, on the strengthening long-range attack capabilities from kyiv with the transfer to Ukraine of Tomahawk missiles Americans.

Faced with this possibility, the Kremlin warned this Thursday that the supply of Tomahawk missiles to kyiv would represent a “new level of climbing.” “All the time The Tomahawk issue is included (…) This would be a significant step towards a new level of escalation,” Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman, told the channel. Izvestia.

Moscow maintains that, in addition to the danger that this poses to national security -The Tomahawks can reach Moscow-, the Ukrainian military They would need Western assistance to employ that weaponry.

Was Trump who suggested on Sunday the possibility of a future delivery to Ukraine of Tomahawk missiles, which has been interpreted as a new turn in the White House strategy to increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Republican assured on Wednesday that kyiv is considering launching an offensive and that the US will have to make a decision in this regard. “All we want from Putin is this: stop killing Ukrainians and Russians, since it is killing many Russians,” he said and once again questioned the strength of the Russian “war machine.”

“Fewer words and more long-distance attack capacity. After Russia sabotaged the diplomatic process initiated by President Donald Trump, the White House is looking for a new path to peace,” Ukrainian presidential advisor Mijailo Podoliak wrote in X.

The decisive Tomahawk

These weapons, called BGM-109 Tomahawk and manufactured by the American company Raytheonare cruise missiles launched from ships, submarines and land launchers, with the capacity to hit targets located at a distance of up to 2,500 kilometers, a range much greater than that of the weapons delivered so far to Ukraine by its Western partners.

These missiles carry highly explosive warheads. and that they travel at subsonic speed, making their detection by radar more difficult when also flying at low altitude.

Tomahawks are ideal for destroying relatively small targets.such as air defense equipment and radars, given the great precision conferred by its guidance system, which combines GPS technology and inertial navigation.

kyiv still uses missiles like the British Storm Shadowwhich have a range of about 250 kilometers, and the American ATACMS, with a range of about 300 kilometers, a distance about ten times shorter than that of the Tomahawk.

The US Department of Defense also states in a document on the characteristics of the Tomahawk missile that it can carry “nuclear or conventional loads”, while its land modality includes variants with a thousand-pound warhead (about 453 kilograms) and more than 150 submunitions.

According to he think tank estadounidense Institute for the Study of War (ISW), The delivery of these missiles would allow Ukraine to attack more than 1,500 “military targets” in Russia. The report specifies that the Tomahawks with a range of 1,600 kilometers could reach up to 1,655 targets – including 67 air bases – and those with a range of 2,500 kilometers, about 1,945, including 76 air bases.

Potential targets include “permanent bases, fuel depots, command centers, air defense facilities, weapons factories and training centers,” as well as the Engels air base and a Geran-2 drone plant in Tatarstan.

Precisely these Russian drones are capable of reaching 2500 kilometerswhich would mean reaching practically any European capital, as President Zelensky warned European leaders at the recent Copenhagen Summit.