Vladimir Putin has lost no time in warning that he’d attack foreign troops stationed in Ukraine as part of a peace deal he has no intention of signing while Donald Trump continues to undermine Europe’s defences.
Speaking in Vladivostok, Putin – who claims that Ukraine’s intention to join Nato is the reason his forces invaded – said: “If some troops appear there, especially now, during military operations, we proceed from the fact that these will be legitimate targets for destruction.”
