Information on Tomahawk missiles in Victory Plan is obvious - military expert Katkov

He expressed this opinion on Espreso TV.

‘It is difficult to talk about any secrecy of information about Tomahawk missiles in the Victory Plan, because many media outlets immediately started talking about such missiles. This happened immediately after Zelenskyy's speech in the Verkhovna Rada. The Victory Plan was about non-nuclear deterrence to stop the Russian military machine. It went on to publish a list of countries that had been approached for these means. All of this information together objectively left no option but to assume that it was about Tomahawk and Land Cruise Missile. 

That is, it is possible that the Victory Plan referred to specific plans for these missiles and the number of launchers. However, the fact that Ukraine wants to get Tomahawk missiles can hardly be considered super secret information. It was obvious,’ Katkov explained.

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The expert emphasized that Tomahawk missiles could have been deployed in Ukraine immediately after Kyiv's victory.

‘This information became apparent after Volodymyr Zelenskyy's words in the parliament. Personally, I perceived this plan as one designed for the time after Ukraine's victory. That is, to guarantee that Ukraine will not face Russia's aggression again, such long-range weapons could be deployed on our territory. And it is not a fact that they should be in our ownership. Because I think the Presidential Office knows for sure that for the entire period of Tomahawk missiles‘ existence, they have been in service only in the United Kingdom,’ he added.

• On October 29, The New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources in the US government, that in a secret part of the Victory Plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the US for Tomahawk missiles, which have a range more than seven times longer than the ATACMS.