Kremlin says it's unclear if CNN report is fake or not

9/7/2025 18:23

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.



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.



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."



The CNN report did not say when exactly Trump reportedly made the comments about bombing Moscow to Putin.



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."