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- Kremlin says it's unclear if CNN report that Trump threatened to bomb Moscow is fake or not</p>
<p>July 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM</p>
<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it was not sure of the veracity of a CNN article that reported U.S. President Donald Trump had once threatened to bomb Moscow to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine.</p>
<p>CNN's report cited audio recordings of Trump telling a private gathering of donors amid his pre-election campaign in 2024 that he had once warned Putin that he would "bomb the sh*t out of Moscow" if Russia attacked Ukraine.</p>
<p>Asked about the report, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "I cannot confirm or deny this, even if I wanted to... Whether it is fake or not, we do not know either. There is a lot of fake news these days."</p>
<p>The CNN report did not say when exactly Trump reportedly made the comments about bombing Moscow to Putin.</p>
<p>The Washington Post reported that Trump had spoken to Putin by phone last November - after he won the presidential election but before he returned to the White House - and warned him not to escalate in Ukraine. The Kremlin dismissed reports of the phone call as "pure fiction."</p>
<p>The first acknowledged phone call between the men this year took place on February 12.</p>
<p>Trump, who promised to swiftly end the war in Ukraine, has grown increasingly frustrated with Putin in recent months as the conflict has dragged on.</p>
<p>He directed his ire at the Kremlin chief during a meeting with his cabinet officials at the White House on Tuesday, saying "We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin". Trump also said he was considering levying additional sanctions on Moscow.</p>
<p>CNN said that Trump also said he had delivered a similar warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping over a potential invasion of Taiwan, telling him that the United States would bomb Beijing in response.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Gleb Bryanski)</p>
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