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Trump, Putin face defining moment on Ukraine
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The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the Evening Report newsletter Subscribe *{box-sizing:border-box}body{margin:0;padding:0}a[x-apple-data-detectors]{color:inherit!important;text-decoration:inherit!important}#MessageViewBody a{color:inherit;text-decoration:none}p{line-height:inherit}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{mso-hide:all;display:none;max-height:0;overflow:hidden}.image_block img div{display:none}sub,sup{font-size:75%;line-height:0} @media (max-width:620px){.image_block div.fullWidth{max-width:100%!important}.mobile_hide{display:none}.row-content{width:100%!important}.stack .column{width:100%;display:block}.mobile_hide{min-height:0;max-height:0;max-width:0;overflow:hidden;font-size:0}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{display:table!important;max-height:none!important}} {beacon}PRESIDENT TRUMP and Russian President Vladimir Putin face a potentially a defining moment on the world stage when they arrive in Alaska on Friday for a bilateral summit, as Trump hopes to broker an end to Putin’s three-year war with Ukraine.
Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage. It’s their first meeting since 2018.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not be present. The summit will only be attended by Trump, Putin and their translators.
Following the private meeting, Trump and Putin plan to conduct a joint press conference.
If Putin declines, Trump will give his own press conference, he told “The Brian Kilmeade Show.”
Trump has sought to dampen expectations for what gets resolved at the summit.
“Tomorrow, all I want to do is set the table for the next meeting which should happen shortly,” Trump said Thursday during an Oval Office press conference.
But Trump has also sounded bullish at times, saying there is only “a 25 percent chance this meeting will not be a successful meeting.”
“I believe now [Putin]’s convinced that he’s going to make a deal. He’s going to make a deal,” Trump said Thursday on Fox News Radio. “We’re going to find out — I’m going to know very quickly.”
NBC News reports that Putin told a group of advisers he believes the Trump administration is making “energetic and sincere efforts to stop the fighting, stop the crisis and reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved in this conflict,” according to a translated readout from the Kremlin.
Trump says he hopes to have a trilateral meeting, potentially in Alaska again, with Putin and Zelensky in the near future.
Trump has had a rocky relationship at times with Zelensky.
But lately, Trump has reserved his ire for Putin, threatening economic sanctions and greenlighting the sale of U.S. munitions to European countries for Ukraine’s defense.
“He’s not going to mess around with me,” Trump said Thursday.
Trump this week had a virtual meeting with Zelensky and other European leaders, who left the meeting satisfied that the president wouldn’t seek to negotiate away any land on Ukraine’s behalf.
The European leaders, who have at times clashed with Trump over Ukraine and tariffs, left the meeting sounding optimistic that they’re on the same page with the U.S. president.
NewsNation’s Robert Sherman was one of a few select journalists invited to interview Zelensky this week. Read his dispatch from Kyiv here.
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