A new book alleges that President Donald Trump told donors he threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with bombing Moscow if Russia invaded Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces launched a massive aerial assault on Ukraine early Thursday for the second time in two days.

"With Putin, I said, 'If you go into Ukraine, I'm going to bomb the s--t out of Moscow,'" Trump can be heard saying on the recording. "He said 'No way,' and I said, 'Way.' And then he goes,

President Donald Trump says he’s “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Trump says Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine is “killing a lot of people” on both sides.

Trump says he approved sending defensive weapons to Ukraine. President Donald Trump commented further on Tuesday about the apparent reversal on sending more weapon

The president promised he would end the war before he even took office. Instead Putin is slaughtering more Ukrainian civilians.

The US will have to send more weapons to Ukraine because it is getting “hit very hard now”, Donald Trump has vowed in a major U-turn on military assistance."We have to," Mr Trump said. "They have to be able to defend themselves.

Valery Gergiev, an ally of Vladimir V. Putin, is set to conduct in Western Europe for the first time since institutions there cut ties over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.