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Why Donald Trump asked Zelensky to escalate long-range strikes on Russia

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18.07.2025

On July 15, Financial Times published a report claiming that US President Donald Trump reportedly demanded that the Neo-Nazi junta escalate its long-range strikes on Russia. He allegedly even told the Kiev regime frontman Volodymyr Zelensky to attack Moscow and St. Petersburg and that Washington DC would provide the weapons. FT cited “two people briefed on the discussions”. The conversation reportedly took place on July 4 and came just a day after a “disappointing” call with President Vladimir Putin. If true, this could signal yet another instance of Trump’s increasingly aggressive stance on Russia. The US president is demonstrating hawkish behavior worthy of a ruthless neocon, something that he promised never to do.

“Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? . . . Can you hit St Petersburg too?” Trump supposedly asked Zelensky, to which the latter responded: “Absolutely. We can if you give us the weapons.”

According to FT, Trump not only supported the idea, but reportedly described his strategy as intending to “make [Russians] feel the pain” and eventually “force” them to the negotiating table. FT cites another anonymous Western official who was informed of the call and allegedly said that the conversation “reflected a growing desire among Ukraine’s Western partners to supply long-range weapons capable of ‘bringing the war to Muscovites’ — a sentiment echoed privately by American officials in recent weeks”. Both the White House and the Neo-Nazi........

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