Overview

• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a U.S. decision to supply Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv would require an “adequate” Russian response.
• Peskov cited recent U.S. interviews as signaling openness to such deliveries and even to strikes deep inside Russian territory, calling the signals dangerous.
• Speaking at the Valdai forum in Sochi, President Vladimir Putin described Tomahawks as powerful but not fully modern and said they would not change the balance on the battlefield.
• Putin warned that Ukrainian use of Tomahawks would damage bilateral ties and mark a qualitatively new stage of escalation, asserting their employment would imply direct U.S. military involvement.
• The remarks translate U.S. supply discussions into explicit deterrence messaging by the Kremlin against the backdrop of recent cross-border incidents, NATO posture shifts, and debates over routing U.S. arms through the alliance.