Russia is warning the United States that the increasingly serious conversations about approving Ukrainian use of long-range weapons could lead to a violent escalation.

President Donald Trump is sick and tired of dead-end diplomacy with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and has transitioned conversations about negotiated peace to discussions of making the Kremlin feel pain.

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The White House reportedly green-lit intelligence-sharing with the Ukrainian military regarding Russian energy sites as targets for missile strikes, while the president weighs whether or not Kyiv should be allowed to use Tomahawk missiles to strike as deep as the Kremlin.

“If this happens, it will be a new serious round of tension that will require an appropriate response from the Russian side,” Peskov said on Thursday.

But the Kremlin mouthpiece brushed off the threat, asserting that “it also remains obvious that there is no magic pill, no magic weapon for the Kyiv regime — no weapon can radically change the course of events.”

Tomahawk missiles are not a “magic weapon,” but they are an effective piece of military technology — capable of changing programming mid-flight and cruising at low altitudes, their 1,000-mile range would put Moscow in striking distance.

Following the collapse of bilateral negotiations between Trump and Putin, the U.S. president has made a hard pivot to backing Ukraine and allowing NATO to “do what they want” with the American weapons they purchase for the war effort.

“With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, [reclaimation of] the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option,” Trump said on Truth Social. “We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them.”

Zelensky, meanwhile, has seized upon Trump’s fury to request the game-changing Tomahawk missiles that former President Joe Biden’s administration considered off the table.

“They have to know where the bomb shelters are,” Zelensky said of Kremlin officials after speaking with Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations in New York. “They need it. If they will not stop the war, they will need it in any case.”

“They have to know that we in Ukraine, each day, we will answer. If they attack us, we will answer them,” he added.

He told the press that in response to his request, Trump told him, “We will work on it.”

Peskov told reporters following the comments that the Ukrainian president was “irresponsible” for “issuing threats left and right” and “continuing his desperate efforts.”

Zelensky’s comments could have been brushed off as baseless wish-casting, but Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance have affirmed that tomahawks are very much under consideration.

“It’s something that the president is going to make the final determination on. I know that we’re reviewing that request. We’re also reviewing a number of other requests,” Vance told Fox News.

Russia has warned repeatedly that NATO cannot become directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict or else it will be treated as an act of war.

“It is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It is about deciding whether NATO countries become directly involved in the military conflict or not,” Putin said a year ago regarding the use of U.S. long-range weapons by Ukraine.

The Russian president claimed that to use such missiles, Ukraine would also require NATO-furnished personnel, intelligence, and weapons systems.

He continued: “If this decision is made, it will mean nothing short of direct involvement — it will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are parties to the war in Ukraine. This will mean their direct involvement in the conflict, and it will clearly change the very essence, the very nature of the conflict dramatically.”

Russia has not changed its posture in the face of U.S. intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, as reported this week, seeming to stick to the red line against blending such collaboration with concrete strikes on Russian soil.

“The United States of America transmits intelligence to Ukraine on a regular basis online,” Peskov told reporters on Thursday. “The supply and use of the entire infrastructure of NATO and the United States to collect and transfer intelligence to Ukrainians is obvious.”

If the U.S. puts Tomahawks up for sale, Europe appears more than ready to place an order.

Rhetoric across the Atlantic Ocean continues to escalate, with some heads of state speaking explicitly about the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a new form of war in which they are ultimately combatants.

“The first illusion was and still is that there is no war. Some of us like to use definitions such as full aggression, incident, or provocation,” said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk this week at a meeting in Copenhagen. “No, this is war. A new type of war, very complex, but it is war.”

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“I received a message from Warsaw that we have another incident near the port of Szczecin,” Tusk added. “Two days ago, there was an incident close to our Petrobaltic platform and our pipeline. Both involved Russian ships. We have new incidents in our region — I mean the Baltic Sea — every week, almost every day.” He added, “This is our war, and if Ukraine loses, it will mean our defeat.”

Tusk’s remarks were made at the ongoing European Union summit in Denmark, where over 50 heads of state are expected to gather with continental defense at front of mind.

Zelensky is expected to speak on Thursday with the national leaders.