Ukraine loses territories and asks for Tomahawk missiles paid by NATO in order to hit Russia and treat from a better position to the heart. He knows that with the arrival of the fourth winter of war, the front will take care of until March
During the meeting last Tuesday, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked President Donald Trump to provide Ukraine Missiles Tomahawk, effective that could allow Ukraine to hit Russia in depth by reaching Moscow.
What are the Tomahawk
To avoid misunderstandings it is necessary to understand what it is: they are cruise missiles weighing about 1,300 kg that transport about 450 k explosives and which are equipped with a navigation system capable of following the profile of the soil up to the goal, traveling in this way low to escape radar.
They are relatively dated weapons: designed in the seventies and on duty since 1983, over two million effective today.
Physically they are about six meters long for a diameter of 52 cm and have folding wings with opening just over 2 and a half meters. The range varies according to the 1,250 to 2,500 km version, just enough to start from any part of Ukraine and arrive at the Kremlin, traveling even between 30 and 50 meters above sea level at almost 900 km per hour.
Public declarations
Last Wednesday (1st October) Zelensky present at “The Axios Show” said she asked Trump an additional weapon system that could force Russian president Vladimir Putin to start peace talks, perhaps without Ukraine having to use it.
And yesterday Trump said he had “in a certain sense made a decision” on the sale of long -haul Tomahawk missiles to NATO countries, so that they can be provided to Ukraine. As if to say: it will not be the fault of the USA that Moscow will be affected.
Objectives and uncertainties
Ukraine claims that the Tomahawk would allow it to hit military goals in depth in Russia and would help to discourage Putin by bringing it to the negotiation table at better conditions for Kiev. Just when winter is approaching and the front does not set itself because mud and frost block terrestrial military movements.
But Trump does not trust Zelensky completely and he said he wants to know what Ukrainians do with missiles do before supplying them, saying: “Where they will send them, I guess I will have to ask, I don’t expect an escalation.”
American worries
A source close to the Ukrainian government, however, stated that Trump’s officials have expressed concern about this initiative, suggesting that the United States control the use of missiles by Ukraine after that, however, they will have been purchased and paid by NATO countries.
Putin’s reaction
Putin’s reaction came last Sunday: “The supply of Tomahawk to Ukraine would be the beginning of a completely new and qualitatively new phase of escalation on a different level,” he said, suggesting that so far even Russia has preferred to use different weapons, but which still has a cruise missiles similar to those, such as the various versions of the Kalibr family (NATO code SS-N-27 Sizzler and SS-N-30a, or 3m-54, 3m-14 and R91).
The strategic scenario
Trump therefore wanted to emphasize that Ukraine could not use Tomahawk without the direct participation of the USA, which would place the United States and Russia in a direct clash by nullifying any positive progress in the relationships between the two countries.
One of the points to be clarified is also how Ukraine would launch them: they are avaiolanciati, embarked on ships and submarines, or usable by a terrestrial pitcher. The navigation system is GPS, therefore subject to the disorders that Moscow would activate if threatened.
The possible limitations
It remains to be understood what limitations it could impose Trump, if of a technical type, authorizing variants with a limited range, or political, limiting the type of targets and conditions of use. On which, however, he would have indirect control.
The situation on the front
In the meantime, however, Moscow advances along the approximately 1,250 kilometers in front and intensifies the bombings against Ukrainian infrastructures also in the hinterland, up to the western borders of the country.
