Russia will shoot down Tomahawk cruise missiles and bomb their launch sites if the US decides to supply them to Ukraine and find a way to retaliate against Washington that hurts, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would want to know what Ukraine planned to do with Tomahawks before agreeing to provide them because he did not want to escalate the war between Russia and Ukraine. He said, however, that he had "sort of made a decision" on the matter.

"Our response will be tough, ambiguous, measured, and asymmetrical. We will find ways to hurt those who cause us trouble," Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Russian parliament's defence committee, told the state RIA news agency.

Kartapolov, a former deputy defence minister, said he did not think

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