The US President is now reluctant to send Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine following his call with Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening.
It seems that Donald Trump is once again back peddling after Putin discussed Ukraine receiving Tomahawk missiles, the call last two and half hours and other matters were also discussed.
President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “We need Tomahawks for the United States of America too. We have a lot of them but we need them. I mean, we can’t deplete for our country.”
“I don’t know what we can do about that,” he added.
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The Russian dictator’s foreign policy aide, Yuro Ushakov said that Putin had raised Trump sending Ukraine Tomahawks.
Ushakov said, “Vladimir Putin reiterated his point that Tomahawks would not change the situation on the battlefield but would cause significant harm to relations between our countries, not to mention the prospects for peaceful settlement.”
On 15 October Trump said that he wants Ukraine to “go offensive” against Russia and said following his meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he will decide whether or not to provide the missiles.
The US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth that Washington is ready to “impose costs on Russia” in a manner that “only the US can do.”
Trump will meet with Putin in Budapest to try and get a peace deal to end the war.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social, “The United States’ initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated.”
“President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed-upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this ‘inglorious’ war between Russia and Ukraine to an end,” the US President added.
