Donald Trump, the US presidential candidate from the Republican party, said that he threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with striking Moscow in the event of an attack on Ukraine. Trump stated this in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

"I said. ‘Vladimir, if you pursue Ukraine, I will hit you so hard you won't even believe it. I'm going to hit you right in the center of freaking Moscow. I said, 'We’re friends. I don’t want to do it, but I have no choice,’" Trump said in the interview.

According to Trump, Putin responded by saying, "No way."

“I said, 'Way.' I said, 'You’re going to be hit so hard, and I’m going to take those domes right off your head.' Because, you know, he lives under the domes," Trump added.

Trump did not note when and under what circumstances his aforesaid conversation with Putin took place. But according to the former US president, he and Putin have a “great relationship” and the head of Kremlin knows that Trump is “freaking crazy.”