"I said, 'Vladimir, if you go after Ukraine, I am going to hit you so hard,'" the former president said in an interview.

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that he threatened Vladimir Putin with a strike on Moscow if he invaded Ukraine. Source: Trump in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, as reported by European Pravda Details: Trump once again reiterated that he had a "great relationship" with Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin and got along with him very well.

This was the response Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov gave when asked by reporters to comment on U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent claim that he had threatened to strike Moscow. Peskov added that "a number of world leaders" do not maintain confidentiality or follow "informational hygiene" in regard to private conversations.

Western banks still operating in Russia are facing and increasingly difficult path to an exit.

Ukrainian forces launched a series of drone strikes early Sunday morning, targeting Moscow and several regions in western Russia, according to statements from Russian regional officials. Sergei Sobyanin,

Several regions in Russia experienced heightened activity from air defense forces during the night of October 20 due to the detection of drones, resulting in explosions and fires. Reports indicate the repulsion of aerial attacks in at least eight regions,