US Vice President J.D. Vance said that the Donald Trump administration is discussing the possibility of transferring Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. He stated this in an interview with Fox News, "European Pravda" reports.
According to Vance, the issue of supplying these missiles to Ukraine is at the negotiation stage, but the final decision on the transfer belongs to the US President. He emphasized that Trump will make it based on the interests of the United States in the field of foreign and defense policy.
The American vice president clarified that discussions on this issue are ongoing right now.
The Telegraph previously reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the possibility of receiving Tomahawks with Donald Trump during a meeting in New York. Zelensky himself later said that he had given the US president a request "with details and illustrations" regarding everything "Ukraine wants."
Tomahawks are long-range American subsonic cruise missiles developed by Raytheon. They are designed for precision strikes on ground targets such as command centers, military installations, and infrastructure.
First introduced in 1983, the Tomahawk has a range of over 1,600 km (in the Block V version), is equipped with a modular warhead (450 kg) and a TERCOM/INS/GPS guidance system, which provides terrain avoidance and accuracy of hitting the target within 10 meters. The missiles are launched from ships, submarines, aircraft or mobile Typhon launchers, and their low flight altitude (30–100 m) makes them difficult to detect and intercept.