Trump: ‘A 25 percent chance that meeting with Putin will not be successful’
US President Donald Trump takes into account that his upcoming top with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin is not running out. “This meeting lays the foundation for the second meeting, but there is a 25 percent chance that this meeting will not be successful,” Trump told Fox News Radio.
The leaders talk to each other on Friday in Alaska about the war in Ukraine. Trump said that a possible deal about the termination of the conflict will only be concluded in a follow -up interview. The Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy may also sit there. “The second meeting is going to be very, very important, because that is the meeting where they will close a deal.”
Trump says he has three places in mind for such a second meeting. “Depending on how my conversation goes, I will call President Zensky and invite him to come to the place where we will meet.”
The American Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said Trump first hopes to get the battle to be stopped. It will take longer to agree on a peace agreement to finally end the war. “We want peace,” Rubio told the press. “We will do everything that is in our power to achieve that, but in the end it is up to Ukraine and Russia to reach an agreement.”
Rubio also said that the top was created very quickly. According to his minister, Trump thought it was important to talk to Putin personally, “look into the eyes and find out what is possible and what is not.”