If the US president Donald Trump decides to provide Ukraine for long -haul Tomahawk, this could inflict significant damage to the structures that supply the Russian army. In particular, they could target the production plant of Shad’s drones and numerous military airports.
The Tomahawk missiles requested by Volodymyr Zelensky in Trump are available in variants with a range of 2,500 and 1,600 kilometers. The experts of the American Research Group Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have calculated that the former would have at least 1,945 Russian military installations within their range, while the latter would have at least 1,655.
ISW, as reported by Moscow Times, believes that Ukraine could probably stop the operations of the Russian army at the front by targeting the rear that supply it with weapons and support offensive operations. For example, the factory in the special economic area of Alabuga, in Tatarstan, could target the mass production of the mass production of Shad drones. Air bases could also be priority objectives: 76 of them are in the range of the longer Tomahawk, while 67 could be affected by short -range ones. The strategic bombers take off from one of these bases, Engels-2 in the Saratov region, to launch cruise missiles on Ukraine.
Trump said he had almost decided to provide Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, but that he wants to clarify how they will be used and what objectives they will be focused on. According to a source of Axios in the Ukrainian government, the White House fears that the United States may not be able to control the use of missiles after their transfer. The Kremlin is trying with all his forces to dissuade Trump from providing Kiev the Tomahawk to preserve the safety of his rear, observes Isw, recalling attention on Vladimir Putin’s statements that has warned that a decision in this sense would lead to the “destruction of bilateral relationships, at least of positive emerging trends in such relationships”. Previously, Putin had stated that the use of Tomahawk by Ukraine would have marked a “qualitatively new” phase of escalation in relations between Russia and the United States.