Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr

Zelenskiy strongly suggested in a video released on Wednesday

that Kyiv has requested supplies of long-range U.S. Tomahawk

missiles, as he made critical remarks about "confidential"

information he said had been leaked.

Tomahawk missiles have a range of 2,500 km (1,550 miles),

far greater than any missile Ukraine currently has in its

arsenal. Such a weapons delivery would almost certainly be seen

by Russia as an escalation in its war in Ukraine.

Zelenskiy travelled to the United States last month to pitch

a "victory plan" to President Joe Biden, which he said could

help pressure Moscow to negotiate an end to the war in good

faith.

The Ukrainian leader has since said the plan envisages a

"non-nuclear deterrence package" that would only be used if

Moscow does not end its full-scale invasion and continues to

escalate the conflict.

Some of the plan's details have been kept confidential,

something Zelenskiy alluded to in remarks in English to Nordic

journalists on Tuesday that were published in full on his

Telegram page on Wednesday.

"When a lot of countries began to support the victory plan,

you see what's going on now in media - they said that Ukraine

wanted a lot of missiles, like Tomahawks etc. But it was

confidential information - between Ukraine and the White House.

How to understand these messages?"

Zelenskiy added: "So it means between partners - there's no

any confidential things."

The New York Times ( NYT ) cited a senior U.S. official on Tuesday

as saying that Zelenskiy had asked for Tomahawk missiles,

something the official said was totally unfeasible.

The United States has been Ukraine's most important source

of military assistance since Russia's February 2022 invasion,

but also sought not to do anything that might prompt

nuclear-armed Russia to respond harshly or widen the conflict.

The United States does not, for instance, allow Ukraine

to fire Western weapons at military targets deep into Russia

despite repeated calls by Kyiv to allow that.

Ukraine has developed its own long-range attack drones

during the war and used them to strike targets well inside

Russia.