Moscow:
The Kremlin said Thursday that Ukraine’s leadership is clearly nervous about Russian advances on the front line if Kiev is asking the United States to supply it with long-range Tomahawk missiles.
The New York Times reported that President Volodymyr Zelensky had ordered the Tomahawk missiles from the United States, which have a range of 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles), far greater than any missile currently in Ukraine’s arsenal.
Zelinsky strongly suggested in a video released Wednesday that Kiev had made such a request.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that on the front lines of the war, where Russia has advanced at its fastest pace in two years in the past three months, it was clear.
“Against the backdrop of this dynamic, the Kiev government is becoming quite nervous,” he said.
The New York Times said Zielinski had asked the US to provide tomahawks as part of a “victory plan” presented earlier this month, parts of which he kept secret at the time.
Peskov said that Ukraine’s plans, whether covert or not, “boil toward Kiev to completely turn Western countries on their ears as soon as possible in war.” Dragging it up and legitimizing it is the ultimate goal of all these moves. That’s how we see it.”
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