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Volodymyr Zelenskyy e Donald Trump.
“Volodymyr, can you reach Moscow?” A day after the “bad” talks to Putin, Trump will have paved the way for Ukraine’s new weaponry wave, which will come out of Europe’s pockets.
Trump asked Zelenskyy in a conversation on July 4, If he could attack Moscow and St. PetersburgHaving the Ukrainian leader answered yes, if long-range weapons are provided, this Tuesday advances.
According to two sources of the newspaper, Trump was very straightforward. The newspaper cites the words of the two leaders.
“Volodymyr, can you reach Moscow? And St. Petersburg too?”will have asked Trump.
“Sure. We can, if you give us weapons”the Ukrainian President will have answered.
The issue was posed to “make the Russians feel the pain” and encourage the Ukrainian side to intensify the attacks on Russia and Kremlin Sitting at the negotiation table to reach a solution to the conflict started in February 2022, the same newspaper, which cites sources close to the conversations.
The alleged conversation came just a day after one between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, described as “bad” on the American side and in which no progress was made in the sense of a ceasefire in Ukraine.
“We talked about, as you know, the war with Ukraine. And I’m not happy with that. I’m not happy“I had confessed at the time Trump.
The content of the phone call led to sharing in Rome from a list of possible weapons systems that the US could make available to Ukraine through indirect transfers via European countries. The mechanism would allow Trump circumvent the need for approval by the US Congress For direct military support, by authorizing sales to European allies who, in turn, would deliver the weapons to Kiev.
And this Monday, Trump that NATO countries-including Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands and Finland-will buy weapons to the United States, namely those requested Patriot anti -aircraft batteriesto provide Ukraine.
But according to Times, Zelenskyy asked more for Trump, namely cruise missiles Tomahawk and tactical missiles Atacms which Ukraine has already used to reach targets in territory occupied by Russia and occasionally within the Russian borders. However, the latter have no reach to reach Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Kremlin has already classified the news advanced by Financial Times as “lie”.
“This rhetoric is not new. Usually, they are a lie,” Russian presidency spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the daily telephone press conference.
Also Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov argued that Trump must be “under enormous pressure” from the European Union and Nato, alluding to what the Republican gave Russia to reach an agreement with Ukraine.
Already last week, a recently leaked audio of private fundraising events for the 2024 campaign show Trump to claim that it threatened foreign leaders with military attacks and outlined internal hardline policies to attract rich donors.
“With Putin, I said: ‘If they enter Ukraine, I will bombard the mer ** Moscow ‘“Says Trump in the audio obtained by CNN.
