Lithuania behind Tomahawks for Ukraine. Will the United States agree?

The chiefs of the North Atlantic Alliance's defence departments met at the NATO Headquarters.

As Shakaliene stressed, NATO states have the capacity to neutralise objects in their airspace that pose a threat, e.g. drones.

She added that Lithuania had changed its law to guarantee that there was no request for political consent whenever specified an facility had to be neutralised.

– As a minister, I decided that the air force could take specified action without waiting for political approval," she said.

Gift from Trump

The US authorities are presently considering supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles tomahawk. The head of the Ministry of Defence of Lithuania was asked about this issue.

She replied that Lithuania had long hoped that specified a decision would be taken.

– Russia is very good at creating strategical dilemmas for us. present we are ready to make strategical dilemmas for Russia She stressed.

Would Trump agree?

Presidents of the United States and Ukraine, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenski, will discuss on Friday in the White home what weapons should be delivered to Ukraine and whether Americans should hand over Tomahawk maneuvering missiles to Ukrainians – wrote the portal Axios on Monday. There are any things that cannot be discussed on the telephone – the origin of the service has passed.

Zelenski is due to arrive in Washington on Thursday. A Friday gathering of leaders will take place after their telephone conversations on the sale of the Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

Trump stated that before deciding to hand over Ukraine long-range rockets to Tomahawk, he had to talk to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Trump stated that he intended to tell Putin that if he did not end the war, he would release Ukraine's missiles.

On Sunday, in an interview with Fox News, Zelenski assured that rockets which Ukraine may obtain, if the US agrees, will only be utilized to attack military targets in Russia.

– This is the difference between us and Russia," he noted. Russia, in turn, announced a strong consequence if the U.S. rockets were transferred to Ukraine.

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