Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued a chilling nuclear war threat after Donald Trump said he would send Tomahawk missile systems to Ukraine
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko slammed US plans to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, warning it could push the world “to the brink of nuclear war”.
The alarm from Vladimir Putin’s closest ally comes after Trump threatened to arm Ukraine with the missiles to pressure Russia to end the bloodshed. “I might say, ’Look: if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks,” the US president told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Israel on Sunday. “The Tomahawk is an incredible weapon, very offensive weapon. And honestly, Russia does not need that.”
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In response, Lukashenko said in Minsk today: “Tomahawks will not solve the problem. They will only escalate the situation to nuclear war,” Belarusian state media Belta reports. “Perhaps Donald Trump understands this better than anyone, as he is in no hurry to hand over this lethal weapon for deep strikes into Russian territory, as President Zelensky is counting on.”
Belarus has faced heavy Western sanctions for supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine. The former Soviet country has allowed Russian troops to operate on its soil, hosted Russian tactical nuclear weapons since early 2023 and carried out a joint military exercise with Russia in September 2025.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed Trump for stronger military support during what he called a “very productive” phone call over the weekend. Russia has previously warned that US-supplied Tomahawks could be seen as Washington entering the war directly.
Trump is set to host Zelensky at the White House on Friday, where the leaders are expected to discuss “air defence and our long-range capabilities, to maintain pressure on Russia”, Zelensky said.
The Tomahawk missile, first used against Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War, has a range of 1,550 miles and carries a warhead weighing nearly half a ton. Its deployment would mark a massive step up in firepower for Ukraine, allowing strikes deep inside Russian territory.
Trump admitted sending the missiles would be “a new step of aggression”, expressing concern last week that it could trigger an “escalation” in the war.
Zelensky, however, insisted Kyiv would only use the missiles on Russian military targets. “We never attacked their civilians. This is the big difference between Ukraine and Russia,” he told Fox News on Sunday. “That’s why, if we speak about long-range [missiles], we speak only about military goals.”
Zelensky also said Trump’s role in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza gave him more confidence that peace could still be reached between Russia and Ukraine.
Moscow fired back quickly at Trump’s remarks. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: “Now is really a very dramatic moment in terms of the fact that tensions are escalating from all sides. Just imagine: a long-range missile is launched and is flying and we know that it could be nuclear. What should the Russian Federation think? Just how should Russia react? Military experts overseas should understand this.”
Former Russian president and top security official Dmitry Medvedev mocked Trump as a “star-spangled uncle”, warning that “the delivery of these missiles could end badly for everyone, and most of all, for Trump himself”.
State TV host Vladimir Solovyov said last week that sending Tomahawks to Ukraine could spark a new Cuban Missile Crisis, similar to that of 1962.
“(The West) just need to understand that the transfer of Tomahawk (missiles to Ukraine) is already a new Cuban Crisis,” he said. “And when they try to say: ‘What difference does it make…..?’ It makes no difference, we’ll just get hit and that will be the end of it. [But], by the way, if the United Kingdom is wiped out, I think the whole of humanity will applaud.”
Meanwhile, Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian power infrastructure ahead of winter. Early Monday, drones and missiles struck around the Black Sea port of Odesa and the northern Chernihiv region, killing one person, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.