Trump says that Ukraine should not target Moscow
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Ukraine should not target Moscow with strikes, after the Financial Times reported that on July 4, Trump encouraged Ukraine separately to escalate attacks on Russia.
Quoting unknown sources, the director said that Trump also asked whether Ukraine could do this if the United States provides the country long -term weapons.
But this week, the Republican President said that the United States “does not look forward to doing so.”
In his call with Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski, Trump was “just asking a question, not an encouragement to more killing,” the White House told the BBC in a statement.
“He works tirelessly to stop the killing and end this war,” the secretary, Caroline Levitte, continued.
On Monday, Trump announced that he would send weapons to Ukraine and warned of more customs tariffs on Russia if the country did not reach a ceasefire with Ukraine in 50 days.
The President said that the United States will impose a 100 % secondary tariff that targets trading partners in Russia if a peace agreement with Ukraine is not reached in this schedule.
Among the weapons participating in the latest deal, Trump said “everything” including the national defensive missiles, although the minute details were not yet known.
NATO Secretary -General Mark Retty said that the United States, Europe and Ukraine are still working through the details of the agreed weapons in the deal.
In recent weeks, Russia has escalated its drones and missiles in Ukraine, killing more than 230 civilians in June, according to the United Nations – the largest number of killed in one month in three years of war.
Trump’s question to Zelinski about whether the country could hit Moscow came a day after the “bad” call between the US President and Putin, according to the Financial Times.
“Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? … Can you hit St. Petersburg as well?” Trump asked a separate call with Zelensky after, I mentioned the port.
Ukraine hit several targets deeply inside Russia this year with the missiles presented by the United States and the United Kingdom.
Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has pledged to end the Russian war in Ukraine.
But the promise has proven to be more complicated than expected, and Trump has become increasingly frustrated by the Russian leader and the lack of progress in ending the conflict.
On Monday, Trump BBC told that he was “disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin. “But I did not finish with him,” he added.
Trump also said he was “working in” Putin to put an end to killing in Ukraine.
“We will have a great conversation. I will say:” This is good, I think we are about to accomplish it, “and then he will expel a building in Kiev.”
Two rounds of ceasefire talks took place between Russia and Ukraine earlier this year, but no other meetings were identified.
“It is not a sign of peace, but as a reference to the continuation of the war,” said Dmitry Peskov spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday.
