Kremlin says Ukraine must be nervous if it asks for US Tomahawk missiles

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukraine’s leadership was clearly nervous about Russian advances along the front line if Kiev asked the United States to supply it with long-range Tomahawk missiles.

The New York Times reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskii has asked the United States for Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of 2,500 km (1,550 miles), far greater than any missile Ukraine has in its arsenal.

Zelenskiy strongly suggested in a video released on Wednesday that Kiev had made such a request.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the trend on the front lines of the war, where Russia has advanced in the past three months at its fastest pace in two years, is clear.

“Amid this dynamic, the regime in Kiev is beginning to show considerable nervousness,” he said.

The New York Times said Zelenskiy asked the US to provide the Tomahawks as part of the “victory plan” he unveiled earlier this month, parts of which he said at the time were secret.

Peskov said that Ukraine’s plans, whether secret or not, “come down to the fact that Kiev completely drags the Western countries into war as quickly as possible and legitimizes it. All these tricks have this ultimate goal. This is how we see things “.

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge, Mark Trevelyan and Alex Richardson)