Washington will \u201cimpose costs\u201d on Moscow if the Ukraine conflict isn\u2019t settled, Pete Hegseth has said<\/p>\n
The US War Department stands ready to do its part and \u201cimpose costs\u201d on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, War Secretary Pete Hegseth has said.
\nSpeaking in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday ahead of a meeting of countries coordinating military support for Ukraine, he lauded NATO members\u2019 recent militarization push.
\n\u201cIf this war does not end, if there is no path to peace in the short term, then the United States, along with our allies, will take the steps necessary to impose costs on Russia,\u201d Hegseth said.
\n\u201cIf we must take this step, the US War Department stands ready to do our part in ways that only the United States can do,\u201d he added.
\nOn Sunday, President Donald Trump said he could supply Ukraine with US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles if the Ukraine conflict \u201cis not going to get settled,\u201d and admitted that it would be \u201ca new step of aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The longer-range variants of the cruise missile can strike targets up to 2,500km (1,550 miles) away, potentially threatening the Russian capital and other cities.
\nSupplies of the missiles to Ukraine would represent a \u201cnew stage of escalation,\u201d since US troops would have to be directly involved in using them, President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month.
\nRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky wanted to use the Tomahawks to conduct \u201cnew terrorist attacks\u201d against Russia \u201caimed at escalating the conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Moscow has blamed the pause in direct Russian-Ukrainian peace talks on Kiev, arguing that it lacks interest in a settlement, emboldened by Western military support.
\n\u201cRussia is ready for a peaceful settlement,\u201d but continues its military operation \u201cdue to the lack of alternatives,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Moscow appreciates Trump\u2019s peace efforts, and hopes he can help \u201cencourage the Ukrainian side to be more proactive and more prepared for the peace process,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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