Putin says will not “abandon” Russians in Ukraine to nationalists

The US presidential candidate admitted that it would have been “despicable” if Putin were really implicated, but he hasn’t seen “any evidence that he’s killed anybody in terms of reporters”.

“Does he know for a fact that he kills journalists?”

Trump also mentioned that South Carolina Sen.

Putin gave Trump a strong endorsement during a wide-ranging press conference on Thursday, calling the Republican front runner “brilliant” and “talented without doubt”. Obama has been critical of Putin, and called for sanctions after Russian Federation annexed Crimea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, walks prior to Collective Security Treaty Organisation summit in Moscow’s Kremlin, Russia, on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015.

Trump continues to sustain his lead over other GOP contenders with an average of 33 percent support among Republican primary voters.

The billionaire businessman is now far ahead nationally, according to Real Clear Politics, averaging 34.4% in recent polls. More than 9,000 people have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops since April 2014.

“I think, and I say this straightforwardly, I think you have a pathological liar there….”

Russian Federation is not trying to bring back the USSR, President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired, but the problem is that “nobody wants to believe it”.

Trump, for his part, returned the praise, saying in a statement that “it is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond”.

“Isn’t it sort of nice if, like, countries that we’re always fighting with, maybe we get along?”

“What somebody like a Donald Trump is doing is playing on the fears and anxieties of the American people, ” Sanders said.

In a heated interview on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Trump said: “In all fairness to Putin, you’re saying he killed people. And we better get our act together fast because our country is going down if we don’t”.

Trump welcomed Putin’s praise, citing it as proof that a Trump administration would be able to work well with the Russians. “I don’t know that he has”.

“If Russia wants to bomb the hell out of ISIS and join us in that effort, I am absolutely fine with it”, he said.

The announcement went on to sarcastically add, “Trump said he picked Putin to be his vice-president for his strong approach to dealing with dissent, flexible approach to democracy, rule of law and the Constitution, and his willingness to regularly violate other countries’ territorial integrity in blatant violation of worldwide law if it suited his aims”.