Ukraine, Trump: 'War harder to solve. Disappointed by Putin' Kremlin: 'Sending Tomahawk missiles is escalation'

Netta presa di posizione del primo ministro ungherese contro l’ingresso dell’Ucraina nell’Unione europea. L’Ungheria non è obbligata a sostenere l’adesione dell’Ucraina all’Unione Europea e Kiev non ricatterà Budapest per cambiare la sua posizione, ha infatti dichiarato il primo ministro Viktor Orbán su X. «Caro Signor Presidente - si legge nel post di Orban - con tutto il rispetto, l’Ungheria non ha alcun obbligo morale di sostenere l’adesione dell’Ucraina all’UE. Nessun Paese ha mai tentato di entrare nell’Unione Europea con il ricatto, e non accadrà nemmeno questa volta. Il Trattato sull’Unione Europea non lascia spazio ad ambiguità: l’adesione è decisa dagli Stati membri, all’unanimità. Il popolo ungherese ha preso la sua decisione».

"I thought it was going to be the easiest and instead it's more difficult than the Middle East," Donald Trump said about the war in Ukraine, reiterating that he was "very disappointed in Putin". Perhaps partly because of this, ithe US president said he had "made a decision" about sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. The president added that he wanted to "ask some questions" to the Ukrainians about how they intend to use the missiles: "I don't want there to be an escalation," the president said.

The delivery of the missiles to Ukraine would be "a serious escalation", according to Russia, because "we are talking about missiles that can also carry nuclear devices", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after the US president's statements. "We have to wait for clearer statements" from Trump, Peskov added, quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency. "We continue to believe that President Trump maintains the political will to promote a solution to the Ukrainian conflict through peaceful and political negotiations," Peskov added, however, quoted by Tass.

From the Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani comes a distant reply to Moscow's remarks: "Moscow makes its own policy to try to strengthen its position, it sends political messages. There is no escalation. Russia cannot think it can do what it wants and then the others have to do what it says. This is not good, so the Americans make their own choices and I believe they are also correct choices," said the foreign minister on Moscow's high-handedness to the US on missiles.

In the night between Monday and Tuesday "Russian air defence systems shot down a drone flying towards Moscow", said the mayor of the Russian capital Sergey Sobyanin, according to Tass. "Experts from the emergency services are working on the site of the wreckage", he added. Overall, Russian defence systems intercepted a record swarm of Ukrainian drones during the night: 184 were shot down over Russian regions, particularly those of Kursk and Belgorod, including one heading towards Moscow. This was reported by the Defence Ministry, quoted by Tass.