US President Donald Trump said he told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky not to strike Moscow, after giving Russia a 50-day deadline to stop the war.
Trump was asked outside the White House on Tuesday if Zelensky should fire missiles at the Russian capital.
‘No, he shouldn’t target Moscow,’ Trump told reporters on the South Lawn.
His remark comes after a Financial Times report claimed that Trump privately asked Zelensky if he could use long-range missiles supplied by the US on Moscow and escalate attacks.
Trump insisted that he is ‘on nobody’s side’ but on ‘humanity’s side’ and that he wants to ‘stop the killing’.
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