US president Donald Trump has been hit with a scathing warning after he supplied weapons to Ukraine. It comes after his failed pleas for the two countries to agree to a ceasefire
Donald Trump has been issued a chilling warning after supplying Ukraine with a barrage of weapons to protect themselves against Russia.
The American president confirmed he has given US-made Patriot air defence missiles as support in the raging war. His main ally, Republican senator Lindsey Graham, said the leader has shown a growing interest in helping Ukraine fight back. “In the coming days, you’ll see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend themselves,” he said on Sunday.
Trump’s actions has sparked a furious response from Moscow, with state TV propagandist Aleksandr Sladkov stressing that the president “should be scared.” The war pundit added: “Trump is trying to scare us with missiles, but this is difficult to do. Trump should be scared. Everyone is trying to push us to turn Kyiv and Lviv into Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
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The new Trump deal green lights the supply of possible $10 billion ( £7,408,500,000.00 ) worth of defensive and offensive missiles and other arms, to be paid for by US allies in Europe along with Canada, as well as the threat of sledgehammer sanctions if Putin refuses to negotiate in 50 days.
Sladkov declared: “Imagine our country under attack by American cruise missiles, like Yugoslavia, Iraq, etc. I am sure that the Yars should go in response.” Yars are Russia’s main land-based strategic nuclear weapons – each missile typically carries three or four nuclear warheads. Each has a yield estimated between 100 and 300 kilotons, making each warhead between seven and 20 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Frothing Putin TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov claimed the arming of Ukraine by NATO meant a full scale war. “The question is about the survival of our country,” he fumed on Kremlin-funded state TV. “We are already at war. It cannot be avoided. The [Western] task is to destroy our country. We are not fighting in Ukraine, we are fighting with NATO. Understand this already.”
This came as it was claimed the US president had quizzed Volodymyr Zelensky on why he did not heap pressure on Vladimir Putin by attacking capital city Moscow, a disclosure likely to further infuriate Moscow. “We can if you give us the weapons,” Zelensky replied, according to the Washington Post.
It has emerged the US considered approving long range Tomahawk cruise missiles for Kyiv, but for now has not done so, but evidently has approved using American-supplied ATACMS missiles inside Russia to a fuller range of almost 200 miles.
Ultranationalist politician Leonid Slutsky, leader of the hardline Liberal Democratic Party, said: “As for the talk about preparations for resuming the process of missile deliveries to the Ukrainian junta: this will certainly be a step back, but will not fundamentally change the situation on the front for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The goals of the [war] will be achieved in any case – either through negotiations or on the battlefield.”