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U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Keith Kellogg has floated the anticipation of long-range strikes by Ukraine against Russia with American weapons, pursuing the administration's caller pivot connected the conflict.
In a Fox News interrogation broadcast connected Sunday (September 28, 2025), Mr. Kellogg was asked whether Mr. Trump had authorised strikes heavy into Russian territory — days aft Moscow was accused of sending combatant jets and drones that violated the airspace of respective European nations.
"Reading what [Trump] has said and speechmaking what Vice President [J.D.] Vance has said, arsenic good arsenic [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio, the reply is yes," helium said.
"Use the quality to deed deep. There are nary specified things arsenic sanctuaries."
Vice President Vance said successful a abstracted Fox News programme connected Sunday the U.S. was having "conversations" connected whether to springiness long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv, a petition Mr. Trump has antecedently denied.
"It's thing that the president is going to marque the last determination on," Mr. Vance said, referring to the missiles, adding that the U.S. was "looking astatine a fig of requests from the Europeans."
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said successful a property briefing connected Monday that determination was "no panacea that tin alteration the concern connected the beforehand for the Kyiv regime."
"There's nary magic weapon. Whether it's Tomahawks oregon different missiles, they won't beryllium capable to alteration the dynamic."
Mr. Trump said past week aft gathering Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Kyiv was successful a position, with the European Union's help, to combat and triumph "all of Ukraine backmost successful its archetypal form."
Russia annexed the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea aft an cognition successful 2014 and present controls regions successful eastbound and confederate Ukraine pursuing Moscow's full-scale penetration successful February 2022.
It marks a displacement connected Ukraine for Mr. Trump, who told Mr. Zelenskyy during a televised Oval Office bust-up successful February that "you don't person the cards" to bushed Russia.
Russia has vowed to property connected with its violative successful the three-and-a-half-year-long conflict, with the Kremlin precocious dismissing Mr. Trump's assertion that the state was a "paper tiger" with a floundering economy.
