Ukrainian major urges US to send Tomahawks as clashes with Russian forces intensify

FIRST ON FOX: As aggravated warring betwixt Russian and Ukrainian troops continues connected the eastbound frontline successful the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions, a elder Ukrainian commandant progressive successful the warring determination has appealed to the Trump medication for Tomahawk missiles. 

Maj. Oleh Shyriaiev, commandant of the 225th Battalion successful bluish Ukraine, is holding the enactment and hoping for much U.S. support. "The main happening that we request is long-range missiles," Shyriaiev exclusively told Fox News Digital from an undisclosed determination successful the northeastern Sumy portion of Ukraine’s beforehand lines. 

"This warfare is the biggest warfare successful the satellite since World War II," Major Shyriaiev said. Ukraine’s fight, helium stressed, is not conscionable to escaped itself from Russian aggression. 

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Major Oleh Shyriaiev received an grant from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Oleh Shyriaiev)

Moscow has sought to support Ukraine successful its sphere of power since gaining independency from the Soviet Union successful 1991. In fending disconnected Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is looking to fulfill their 30-year anticipation of gaining implicit independency from Moscow’s grip.

"For the past 300 years, our confrontation, that is, the confrontation betwixt Ukraine and Russia, has been our accidental to summation independence. And I americium definite that we volition triumph this war," Shyriaiev said.

Ukrainian soldiers locomotion connected a destroyed span successful Irpin, connected the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022.  (Felipe Dana/ AP Photo)

U.S. long-range Tomahawk missiles would supply a utile enactment for Ukrainian forces to clasp backmost Russian advances and get a amended bargaining presumption to negociate an extremity to the war.

"Bolstering Kyiv's long-range onslaught capabilities tin assistance the Ukrainians enforce greater costs connected Moscow and undermine Russian violative operations. Ultimately, this volition supply Ukraine and the United States greater leverage to execute peace," John Hardie, lawman manager of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Russia Program, told Fox News Digital.

President Trump astatine 1 constituent hinted helium mightiness nonstop Ukraine long-range missiles.

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"If this warfare doesn’t get settled, I whitethorn nonstop Tomahawks," Trump said successful October erstwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House.

In a reversal of this sentiment, the president pulled backmost and told reporters aboard Air Force One connected Nov. 2nd that the U.S. would not beryllium sending Ukraine Tomahawk missiles for now.

Tomahawks person a scope of astir 1,550 miles, acold capable to onslaught Russian territory. The long-range, subsonic cruise missiles are utilized to penetrate heavy wrong force territory and are launched from U. S. Navy aboveground ships and U.S. Navy submarines. Ukraine, for its warfare effort and deficiency of navy, would request ground-based launchers.

In a record photograph provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Barry launches a Tomahawk cruise rocket from their determination successful the Mediterranean Sea to enactment U.S. subject forces assisting the planetary effect to the unrest successful Libya.  (U.S. Navy, MC3 Jonathan Sunderman/ AP )

So acold successful implicit 3 years of war, the U.S. during the Biden medication feared sending violative weapons would beryllium seen arsenic an escalatory determination by Putin. The Russian president adjacent warned President Trump successful a caller telephone telephone against sending specified weapons.

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Even if the U.S. doesn’t supply Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, Major Shyriaiev is  resolute successful the Ukrainian army’s quality to fend disconnected the Russians. 

"I americium assured that our equipped forces volition proceed to support Ukraine’s sovereignty careless of the benignant and fig of weapons we receive. While I judge that Ukraine would greatly payment from the organisation of Tomahawk missiles, fixed the proven precision capableness of these weapons, we cognize determination is simply a batch going connected astatine the governmental level, and we volition support our federation with each the tools astatine our disposal," Shyriaiev said.

Ukrainian worker exits the compartment of the DS3 artillery arsenic the Russia-Ukraine warfare continues, successful the absorption of Niu York, Ukraine, 5 March 2025. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images.)

Shyriaiev is holed up successful Sumy, a strategically important oblast that borders Russia, and has been the centerpiece of Ukrainian counteroffensives this fall.

While Russia continues to marque dependable but dilatory advancement connected the battlefield, Ukraine has stalled Russian advances successful Sumy. Reclaiming territory held by Russia successful Sumy volition bolster Ukraine’s presumption successful immoderate dialog to extremity the war, a cardinal precedence for President Trump.

Shyriaiev described Russia’s tactics crossed the beforehand lines arsenic nutrient assaults, possessing capable manpower to overwhelm Ukraine’s overmuch smaller forces, equating the method of throwing Russian soldiers into a nutrient grinder, and it is achieving immoderate successes.

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Even if Russia succeeds successful taking Pokrovsk, the large stressed that Russia volition endure dense losses on the way.

"Every larger municipality oregon smaller metropolis volition beryllium a superior conflict to take, and the Russians volition beryllium losing a ample fig of manpower present successful Pokrovsk. So Pokrovsk is 1 of those places wherever they volition suffer a batch of troops and their combat capableness volition endure earnestly from that, Shyriaiev said.