The White House on Tuesday rejected media reports that President Donald Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to carry out strikes on Moscow and St. Petersburg during a recent telephone conversation. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump merely asked whether Kyiv possessed the capability to hit the two Russian cities and that the query was “out of curiosity,” not a request for military action. She accused the Financial Times of taking the president’s words “wildly out of context,” and noted that a similar account in The Washington Post relied on unnamed sources. Later in the day, Trump told journalists that Zelensky “should not attack Moscow” and repeated his call for a negotiated end to the war. He warned that if Russia and Ukraine fail to reach a peace agreement within 50 days, the United States will maintain existing tariffs and consider additional sanctions on Moscow, according to remarks reported by RT.