A proposal to back Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize bid in exchange for US missiles is “monstrous,” Kremlin adviser Yury Ushakov has said
The reported proposal by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to support US President Donald Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in exchange for Tomahawk cruise missiles is“monstrous,”Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday.
The claim,reportedby Politico, cited comments Zelensky made during a meeting with journalists on Thursday, suggesting that Kiev could nominate Trump for the award if its request for US long-range missiles was granted and led to a ceasefire with Russia. Ukrainian lawmakers reportedlyfailedto pass a resolution supporting Trump’s nomination earlier this week.
“The idea of a ‘peace prize in exchange for weapons’ sounds monstrous,”Ushakov, who serves as Putin’s top foreign policy adviser, told journalist Aleksandr Yunashev. He added that“it says a lot”about the person who came up with it.
When asked whether Moscow would support a potential Nobel Prize for Trump, Ushakovrepliedit probably would“at this point, if requested.”
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Kiev has renewed its requests for Tomahawk missiles – first submitted to then-President Joe Biden – amid a broader campaign by European NATO members to persuade Trump to continue backing Ukraine. Trump has recently claimed that with European funding and US-made weapons, Kiev could achieve its territorial goals.
Moscow has argued that Western-supplied arms will not alter the course of the conflict. However, Putin has warned that delivering nuclear-capable Tomahawks to Ukraine would represent a serious escalation.
