Russia’s Medvedev says supplying US Tomahawks to Ukraine could end badly for all, especially Trump
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Russia’s Medvedev says supplying US Tomahawks to Ukraine could end badly for all, especially Trump
In this file picture downloaded from the US Navy website, taken on March 29, 2011, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile to support Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn in the Mediterranean Sea. (AFP)
Russia’s Medvedev says supplying US Tomahawks to Ukraine could end badly for all, especially Trump
Warning followed Russia's attack on Ukraine’s power grid overnight, part of a campaign to cripple Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter
Putin said earlier this month that any supply of such missiles to Ukraine would trigger a “qualitatively new stage of escalation”
Updated 13 October 2025
Reuters
MOSCOW: Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that supplying US Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could end badly for everyone, especially US President Donald Trump.
Medvedev, an arch-hawk who has repeatedly goaded Trump on social media, said it is impossible to distinguish between Tomahawk missiles carrying nuclear warheads and conventional ones after they are launched – a point that President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has also made.
“How should Russia respond? Exactly!” Medvedev said on Telegram, appearing to hint that Moscow’s response would be nuclear.
Trump said again on Sunday that he may offer long-range Tomahawk missiles that could be used by Kyiv if Putin does not end the war in Ukraine.
“Yeah, I might tell him (Putin), if the war is not settled, we may very well do it,” Trump said. “We may not, but we may do it... Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don’t think so.”
Medvedev wrote: “One can only hope that this is another empty threat … Like sending nuclear submarines closer to Russia.”
He was alluding to Trump’s statement in August that he had ordered two nuclear submarines to move closer to Russia in response to what he called “highly provocative” comments from Medvedev about the risk of war.
Putin has said supplying Ukraine with Tomahawks – which have a range of 2,500km and could therefore strike anywhere within European Russia, including Moscow – would destroy relations between the United States and Russia.
Fossil fuel lobbyists out in force at Amazon climate talks: NGOs
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BELEM: Lobbyists tied to the fossil fuel industry have turned up in strength at the UN climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, an NGO coalition said Friday, warning that their presence undermines the process. A total of 1,602 delegates with links to the oil, gas and coal sectors have headed to Belem, equivalent to around one in 25 participants, according to Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO), which analyzed the list of attendees. By comparison, hosts Brazil have sent 3,805 delegates. The list compiled by KBPO includes representatives of energy giants ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and TotalEnergies, as well as state-owned oil firms from Africa, Brazil, China and the Gulf. But it also includes personnel from a broad range of companies such as German automaker Volkswagen or Danish shipping giant Maersk, or representatives of trade associations and other groups. The Venice Sustainability Foundation is on the list because its members include Italian oil firm Eni. KBPO also counted Danish wind energy giant Orsted, as it still has a gas trading business, and French energy firm EDF — most of its power comes from nuclear plants but it still uses some fossil fuels. The list includes state-owned Emirati renewable firm Masdar. One of the analysts, Patrick Galey, head of fossil fuel investigations at Global Witness, told AFP that some of the names might appear “surprising” at first sight, but KBPO analyzes data and open source material to identify those linked to fossil fuels. Any renewable company that is a subsidiary of a fossil fuel firm made the list, for instance, because they are “at the beck and call” of their parent group, Galey said. KBPO said it considers a fossil fuel lobbyist any delegate who “represents an organization or is a member of a delegation that can be reasonably assumed to have the objective of influencing” policy or legislation in the interests of the oil, gas and coal industry. KBPO started analyzing official lists of COP participants in 2021. COP28 in oil-rich Dubai in 2023 had a record number of participants — over 80,000 — but also the most fossil fuel lobbyists ever counted by KBPO at 2,456, or three percent of the total. In Belem, 3.8 percent of attendees are tied to fossil fuel interests, the largest share ever documented by KBPO. The UN began publishing a more comprehensive list of participants at COP28, making historical comparisons tricky. “It’s common sense that you cannot solve a problem by giving power to those who caused it,” said Kick Big Polluters Out member Jax Bonbon from IBON International in the Philippines, which was recently struck by a devastating typhoon. “Yet three decades and 30 COPs later, more than 1,500 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming the climate talks as if they belong here,” Bonbon said in a statement. The numbers could be higher. According to Transparency International, 54 percent of participants in national delegations either withheld their affiliation or selected a vague category such as “guest” or “other.”
