Vladimir Putin has warned Donald Trump that if he provides Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles it would be a “new stage of escalation”.US Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that Washington was considering a Ukrainian request to obtain long-range Tomahawks that could reach targets deep into Russia,

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington but will not change the situation on the battlefield.

Russia has always been protected by the tyranny of distance but with tomahawks and precise intelligence from the West, you have the payload plus the distance to take out big targets that

The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will respond "appropriately" if U.S. President Donald Trump approves sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, a move that would put Moscow in range of Kyiv's forces. Dmitry Pekskov made the comment at a regular press briefing on Thursday, state news agency TASS reported.

NATO fighter jets were scrambled and air defense units put on alert in the early hours of Sunday in response to a major Russian drone and missile strike.

Glide bombs and fiber-optic drones are two Russian weapons that are extremely difficult to defeat.