Firefighters battle a blaze set by Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, October 5, 2025

EA on TVP World: Will Trump Send Tomahawk Missiles to Ukraine?

Wednesday’s Coverage: Trump — Putin “Has Got to Settle This War”

UPDATE 0749 GMT:

The UK has sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil producers, Rosneft and Lukoil, four Chinese oil terminals, and more than 40 Russian “shadow fleet” tankers transporting blacklisted oil exports.

Rosneft and Lukoil together export 3.1 million barrels of oil per day.

The UK Government said the “strongest sanctions yet” aim at “choking off energy revenues” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“We are sending a clear signal: Russian oil is off the market,” Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said.

The restrictions on Rosneft and Lukoil include asset freezes, director disqualifications, and trust services sanctions.

UPDATE 0741 GMT:

Ukraine’s largest private energy firm DTEK has halted gas extraction in the Poltava region after this morning’s Russian missile and drone strikes damaged infrastructure.

UPDATE 0731 GMT:

In the Kremlin’s latest show of concern about supply of US Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the provision “would be an escalation, and a very serious one at that.”

Lavrov told the Russian outlet Kommersant that the supply would “cause colossal damage” to the normalization of US-Russian relations, undermining improvements during the Trump Administration.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: Russia launched a missile attack on cities across Ukraine early Thursday.

The Air Force issued a nationwide threat alert at around 5:20 a.m., warning that Russia had launched MiG-31 bombers. The warplane can carry Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.

Moments after the first alert, explosions were reported in the Kharkiv, Kirovohrad, and Poltava region. A second alert was followed by blasts in the Chernihiv region, hitting an unidentified enterprise, and Kharkiv.

The Russians also fired ballistic and cruise missiles and Iran-type attack drones.

Zelensky on US Trip: “Bring the War Closer to An End”

In his nightly address to the nation, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of his visit to Washington on Friday, saying Kyiv has “prepared our part of the homework…both the military component and the economic one”.

This can truly bring the war closer to an end – it is the United States that can wield this kind of global influence, and we are doing everything to ensure that others around the world stand on our side in this effort.

Donald Trump spoke vaguely about Ukraine’s desire to obtain long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles for strikes inside Russia: “They want to go offensive. I’ll make a determination on that, but they want to go offensive. and we’ll have to make a determination.”

He said the Administration is also “looking at other options” besides Tomahawks but did not say what they are.

Instead, he rambled about his dissatisfaction with Vladimir Putin:

All we want from President Putin is this: Stop killing Ukraines [sic] and stop killing Russians, cause he’s killing a lot of Russians. Again, it doesn’t make him look good.

It’s a war that he should have won in one week and he’s now going into his fourth year. That does not make this big so-called war machine look good. But he could make a settlement. We’re willing to settle. I thought we had a deal.

Trump declared that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured him New Delhi will stop buying oil from Russia: “That’s a big step. Now we’re going to get China to do the same thing.”

Trump said India could not “immediately” halt Russian shipments, but the “little bit of a…process will be over soon”. The Indian Government made no comment on the claim.

Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on India, in part because of the oil purchases.

Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, India imported less than 1% of its oil from Moscow. Taking advantage of discounted supplies, New Delhi raised this to 40%, becoming Russia’s second-largest customer after China.