{"id":1310749,"date":"2025-10-23T19:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/finland-calls-on-trump-to-arm-ukraine-with-tomahawk-missiles\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:16:32","slug":"finland-calls-on-trump-to-arm-ukraine-with-tomahawk-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/finland-calls-on-trump-to-arm-ukraine-with-tomahawk-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland calls on Trump to arm Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has expressed the opinion that US President Donald Trump should allow Ukraine to use American long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles in the fight against Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He made this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/tomahawks-finland-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-cruise-missiles-sanctions-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">known<\/a> in an interview with Politico published on October 23.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"470\"> Orpo described Russia as a &#8220;permanent challenge to European security&#8221; and noted that the presence of precision missiles could force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"598\"> He emphasized: &#8220;To stop this war, we must have a level of force no less than Russia&#8217;s, and perhaps even greater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"740\"> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously noted that the discussion of the possible supply of Tomahawks caused a nervous reaction in Putin.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"891\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> At the same time, Orpo emphasized that the key is not only the transfer of individual types of weapons, but also systematic, large-scale, and long-term financial support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"891\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, American leader Donald Trump, during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, stated that his priority was to end the war and said <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vazhlyve-zavershennia-viyny-nezalezhno-vid-rezultativ-tramp-poradyv-zelenskomu-ne-rozrakhovuvaty-na-rakety-tomahawk\/\">not to count on Tomahawk missiles<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"891\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> It was also previously reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tomahavky-ie-ne-lyshe-u-ssha-ukraina-obhovoriuie-z-ievropeyskymy-krainamy-nadannia-dalekobiynoi-zbroi\/\">Ukraine is already negotiating with European partners who can help by providing long-range weapons<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"891\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has expressed the opinion that US President Donald Trump should allow Ukraine to use American long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles in the fight against Russia. He made this known in an interview with Politico published on October 23. Orpo described Russia as a &#8220;permanent challenge to European security&#8221; and noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1310744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1310749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}