Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow’s relationship with Washington would be destroyed if the United States supplies Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for long-range strikes deep into Russian territory.
“This will lead to the destruction of our relations, or at least the positive trends that have emerged in these relations,” Putin said in a video clip released on Oct. 5 by Russian state television reporter Pavel Zarubin.
In less than two months since Putin met with U.S. President Donald Trump at a summit in Alaska, peace between Moscow and Kyiv looks even further out of grasp, with Russia sending forces advancing into Ukraine and drones allegedly flying into NATO airspace while the United States takes a stronger stance on participating in deep strikes into its former Cold War nemesis….