“Tomahawk missiles would be able to regularly strike the Olenya air base in Russia’s Murmansk Oblast, one of the main launchpads for Russian mass missile attacks against Ukraine.” ~ @kyivindependent_official 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇸
#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . U.S. Vice President JD Vance confirmed on Sept. 28 that the U.S. is “looking at” providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, which would be a significant upgrade for Kyiv’s offensive capabilities.
President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Trump to supply Kyiv with Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles during a meeting with the U.S. president on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the Telegraph reported on Sept. 26.
The Tomahawk has an operational range up to 2,500 kilometers. This would allow Ukraine to “deliver a much heavier payload against targets” compared to what it’s using now, said Federico Borsari, a fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).
Tomahawk missiles would be able to regularly strike the Olenya air base in Russia’s Murmansk Oblast, one of the main launchpads for Russian mass missile attacks against Ukraine.
And perhaps most crucially at the current stage of the war, Tomahawks would give a significant boost to Ukraine's increasingly successful campaign against Russian oil and gas infrastructure, a key source of Moscow's revenues helping to fuel its all-out invasion of Ukraine.
“The most effective sanctions — the ones that work the fastest — are the fires at Russia’s oil refineries,” President Zelensky said on Sept. 14.
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