Disappointment in Ukraine as possibility of obtaining Tomahawk missiles remains uncertain

By&nbspEuronews

Published on 18/10/2025 - 16:25 GMT+2

Kyiv residents expressed disappointment Saturday aft US President Donald Trump signalled he was leaning against trading long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

Trump said connected Friday he hopes Tomahawks won’t beryllium needed successful bid efforts aimed astatine Putin and ending Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.

He met pinch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy successful Washington, nan 5th face-to-face gathering for Trump and Zelenskyy since January.

“Hopefully, we'll beryllium capable to get nan warfare complete without reasoning astir Tomahawks", Trump said, adding that nan US needs its Tomahawks and “a batch of different weapons that we're sending to Ukraine.”

Ukrainians judge nan missiles could beryllium a crippled changer successful helping bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to nan negotiating table. Therefore, Trump's latest rhetoric connected Tomahawks sparked disappointment for some.

"I conjecture it was conscionable a game... However we would really request them to make an extremity of this war,” said Roman Vynnychenko, a Ukrainian subject serviceman.

"We are astatine warfare for much than 3 years, we conscionable want peace," said Victoria Khramtsova, a scientist successful Kyiv. "I effort to attraction connected my activity for children and that gives maine nan spot to move connected and not to suffer dream for better."

Change successful reside from Trump

Zelenskyy astatine nan commencement of nan White House talks said he had a "proposition” successful which Ukraine could supply nan United States pinch its precocious drones, while Washington would waste Kyiv nan Tomahawk cruise missiles.

But Trump said he was hesitant to pat into nan US supply, a turnabout aft days of suggesting he was earnestly weighing sending nan missiles to thief Ukraine hit backmost Russia's invasion.

Trump's reside connected nan Ukrainian warfare shifted again aft he held a lengthy telephone telephone pinch Putin connected Thursday and announced that he planned to meet pinch nan Russian leader successful Budapest, Hungary, successful nan coming weeks.

Putin warned Trump during nan telephone that supplying Kyiv pinch nan Tomahawks “won’t alteration nan business connected nan battlefield, but would origin important harm to nan narration betwixt our countries,” according to Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s overseas argumentation adviser.

"Everyday civilians and soldiers die, buildings collapse, our streets and cities are being destroyed,” Vynnychenko added, stressing nan urgent request for nan missiles.

In caller days, Trump had shown an openness to trading Ukraine nan Tomahawks, moreover arsenic Putin warned that specified a move would further strain nan US-Russian relationship.