U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska for a major summit as the United States seeks an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Ahead of the meeting, Trump told Fox News, “It’s not for me to negotiate a deal for Ukraine, but I can certainly set the table to negotiate the deal, and our next meeting will have President Zelenskyy, President Putin, and probably me. I’d like to focus on doing our country, but I get these interruptions.”
Asked what his expectations are, Trump said, “You don’t like to have too many expectations,” adding, “I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire.”
“This is really setting the table today,” he noted.
Trump said this week that there will be “very severe consequences” if Putin fails to reach a peace agreement with Zelenskyy.
“There will be consequences,” Trump told reporters. “I don’t have to say. There will be very severe consequences.”
“I’ll tell you what. I’ve had that conversation with him. I’ve had a lot of good conversations with him then I go home and I see that a rocket hit a nursing home or a rocket hit an apartment building, and people are laying dead in the streets,” Trump said. “So, I guess the answer to that is no, because I’ve had this conversation. I want to end the war. It’s Biden’s war, but I want to end it. I’ll be very proud to end this war, along with the five other wars I ended. But, I guess the answer to that is probably no.”
This is a developing story.
