Vladimir Putin has warned the US that supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles will damage relations between Washington and Moscow.
Speaking on Thursday (2 October), the Russian president praised Donald Trump as a “comfortable conversationalist” who “listens, hears, and responds” following their Alaska summit in August.
However, he said that deployment of US Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine “would mark a completely new, qualitatively new stage of escalation”, as well as hurt ties between the US and Russia.
“Will this damage our relations, which have begun to show some light at the end of the tunnel? Of course it will,” he said, though stressed Russia would be able to shoot them down.