Donald Trump has indicated that Ukraine can conduct long-range strikes into Russia, according to America’s envoy to Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky has long asked the US to provide long-range missiles capable of hitting Russian soil as a way to take the fight directly to Putin, specifically asking to be sold Tomahawk missiles, which are capable of hitting targets more than 1,500 miles away.
In an interview with Fox on Sunday, Keith Kellogg, America’s special envoy to Ukraine, said Trump has indicated that Kyiv should now be able to conduct long-range strikes on Russia.
‘I think reading what he (Trump) has said, and reading what Vice President Vance has said…the answer is yes. Use the ability to hit deep. There are no such things as sanctuaries,’ Kellogg told Fox News later on Sunday.
Earlier, Vice President JD Vance told the broadcaster that Trump would make the final call on whether to allow a deal that would give both European allies and Ukraine permission to purchase Tomahawks.
Following the Fox interviews, Russia said today that it would carefully analyse whether any American Tomahawk missiles that might be supplied to Ukraine were fired using targeting data supplied by the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said that Western countries will make themselves direct parties to the war if they supply targeting and intelligence to enable Ukraine to fire missiles deep inside Russia.
Asked about Vance’s comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was analysing them carefully.
File image showing the USS Barry (DDG 52) launching a Tomahawk cruise missile
‘The question, as before, is this: who can launch these missiles…? Can only Ukrainians launch them, or do American soldiers have to do that?’ he said.
‘Who is determining the targeting of these missiles? The American side or the Ukrainians themselves?’ Peskov added, saying ‘a very in-depth analysis’ was required.
In any case, he said, Tomahawks would not be a game-changer.
‘Even if this happens, there’s no panacea that can change the situation on the front for the Kyiv regime right now. There’s no magic weapon. And whether it’s Tomahawks or other missiles, they won’t be able to change the dynamic,’ Peskov said.
It comes as Putin today called up 135,000 men for routine military service, the country’s biggest autumn conscription drive since 2016.
Russia calls up men aged between 18 and 30 for compulsory military service each spring and autumn.
Conscripts are expected to serve for a year at a military base inside Russia, not to fight in Ukraine, although there have been reports of conscripted men being sent to the front line.
Russia’s annual conscription campaigns are unrelated to mobilisation, in which Russian men are drafted to fight during wartime.
Fire breaks out after the Russian aerial and drone attacks on Zaporizhzhia in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on September 28, 2025
But conscripts who have completed military training are more likely to be called up to fight in the future.
In a decree issued Monday, Putin ordered ‘the conscription of 135,000 citizens of the Russian Federation from October 1 to December 31, 2025’.
This is the biggest autumn conscription drive since 2016, and, combined with the 160,000 called up in the spring, means 2025 is set to be the largest total call-up since that year too.
Russia typically calls up more men in the spring, when most people graduate from school or college.
Since launching his full-scale military assault on Ukraine in February 2022, Putin has put Russia on a war footing, boosting military spending to levels unseen since the Soviet era and expanding the size of the army.
Putin has increased the annual conscription drive by an average of about five percent each year since 2022.
In September 2024 he ordered the expansion of the military to 1.5 million active soldiers – one of the largest in the world.
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