President Trump during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it is not \u201ceasy\u201d for the U.S. to give long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, as Washington needs the powerful munitions in its stockpile also.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not easy for us to give \u2026 you\u2019re talking about massive numbers of very powerful weapons,\u201d Trump said Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, that\u2019s one of the things we\u2019ll be talking about hopefully, they won\u2019t need it, hopefully, we\u2019ll be able to get the war over with, without thinking about Tomahawks,\u201d he added at the White House.<\/p>\n
The possible delivery of Tomahawk missiles has become a major point of discussion this week after Trump floated the idea. <\/p>\n
On Friday, the Ukrainian leader emphasized that his military does not use just Tomahawks and suggested that Kyiv could send \u201cthousands\u201d of its drones to the U.S. in exchange for the long-range missiles, which are typically fired from warships and submarines.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don’t use just Tomahawks. If you want to target a military goal, you need thousands of drones. It goes together with such missiles. Ukraine has such thousands of our production drones, but we don’t have Tomahawks. That’s why we need Tomahawks,\u201d Zelensky said Friday.<\/p>\n
“But [the] United States is a very strong production and the United States has Tomahawks and other missiles, very strong missiles, but they can have our thousands of drones,\u201d the Ukrainian president added. \u201cThat’s why, where we can work together, where we can strengthen American production.\u201d<\/p>\n
The missiles, designed to fly at high subsonic speeds and at low altitudes to better evade radars would provide Kyiv with a lot more range and capability to hit Russian military targets and energy facilities, such as oil and gas infrastructure, experts told The Hill this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n