Trump speaks about his relationship with Putin: "He would have never gotten into Ukraine"
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Former US President Donald Trump said that Vladimir Putin "will never get into Ukraine" and that he himself told Putin to "never, ever go into Ukraine" during his presidency, despite Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump has spoken about his relationship with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, noting that the latter "would have never gotten into Ukraine," and he said "don’t ever, ever go into Ukraine." Trump said this in an interview with Bloomberg published on July 16, UNN reports.
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"Putin and I got along very well, with our relationship. We were never in danger of a war. He would have never gotten into Ukraine. I said, don’t ever, ever go into Ukraine," Trump said.
Interrupting the interviewer on the phrase about Russia's war against Ukraine, Trump said that he simply thought "you have to be smart, but remember 9,500 miles away".
"It’s a very, very dangerous world. And I actually worry about the five months that we have left. Right, I think you could end up in a, you could end up in a World War III," Trump said.
