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

In an interview with the American publication The Wall Street Journal last week, Trump claimed to have warned the president of Russia: "Vladimir, if you attack Ukraine, I will hit you so hard you won't even believe it.

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.