Zelensky pledges to use Tomahawk missiles only against Russian military targets News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

The Kremlin warned of the risk of escalation if Kiev was provided with American-made long-range missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would only use long-range Tomahawk missiles against Russian military targets, as the Kremlin expressed concern about Washington’s potential plan to supply weapons to Kiev.

Fox News broadcast Zelensky’s comment on Sunday, the same day he spoke with US President Donald Trump.

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Trump said on Monday that he would not agree to supply Tomahawk missiles to Kiev unless he knew what it planned to do with them. He added, without providing further details, that he had “kind of made a decision” on the issue.

Given its range of 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles), Ukraine could use the weapons to strike deep into Russia.

In comments published on Sunday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the issue “raises grave concern” for Russia.

“Now is really a very dramatic moment in terms of the fact that tensions are rising on all sides,” he told Russian state TV correspondent Pavel Zarubin.

Peskov said Moscow should keep in mind that some versions of the missile are capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

The Kremlin spokesman’s statements came as French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the recent Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

After speaking with Zelensky on Sunday, Macron said: “Since the agreement reached in Gaza offers a glimmer of hope for peace in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine must also end.”

He added: “If Russia continues its stubborn call for war and its refusal to come to the negotiating table, it will have to pay the price.”

Meanwhile, Zelensky said in a Facebook post that he urged Macron to give Ukraine more missiles and air defense systems, stressing that Russia was increasing its bombing while the world’s focus was elsewhere.

“Russia is now exploiting this moment – the fact that the Middle East and internal issues in each country are receiving maximum attention,” Zelensky said in a readout of his call with Macron.

As it has done before, Russia is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in an attempt to cripple the sector before winter.

Last week alone, Russia launched “more than 3,100 drones, 92 missiles, and about 1,360 glide bombs” into Ukraine, according to Zelensky.

Two employees of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, were wounded at a substation in Kyiv province in overnight attacks on Sunday, according to the regional governor.

Russia on Friday carried out what Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko described as “one of the largest focused strikes” against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leading to power outages across the country.