"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.

In a recent “PBD Podcast” interview, the GOP nominee declared President Joe Biden “instigated” the nearly three-year conflict.

Donald Trump blamed Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the White House for Russia's invasion of Ukraine — but he didn't hold Vladimir Putin responsible all.

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.