Trump-Zelensky LIVE: Russia issues 'nuke strike' threat before Mar-a-Lago meet

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky are set to meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine - as a Russian commentator says most Russians are in favour of launching nuclear strikes on Europe

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky are set to hold a crunch meeting over Russia's nearly four-year war in Ukraine.

The US president and his Ukrainian counterpart are expected to meet at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida at 1pm ET (6pm GMT).

The talks come after a Russian propagandist said on state TV that most Russians support the possibility of nuclear strikes against Ukraine and parts of Europe. Sergey Mikheyev made the inflammatory comments on the primetime programme The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov.

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'Most Russians would be in favour of nuking Europe and Ukraine'

Sergey Mikheyev said in Russian: "They [the West] have this myth: that Putin supposedly went mad, and that’s why he’s doing all this. Listen, I've said many times in this studio: if you held a referendum on our military policy and asked the Russian population what should have been done, Europe and Ukraine would have long since been smoking with radioactive ash.

"If, hypothetically, you asked the majority of the population - indeed, the entire population of Russia - what should be done, the answer would be: to burn everything to hell so that they never open their mouths again."