According to the American president, during a meeting with Putin he will see in the first minutes, “this meeting will be good or not.”
“If not, then the meeting will end very quickly. If so, then we will have peace in the near future,” Trump emphasized.
The politician also noted that if he were not the president, Putin would “capture all of Ukraine.”
“If I were not the president, in my opinion, he would have captured the whole of Ukraine much faster, but I am the president, and he will not play with me,” Trump said.
The US President believes that the situation that has arisen, referring to the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, “should never have arisen.” He expressed the hope that Putin will eventually agree to an agreement on the termination of war against Ukraine.
“The threat of strengthening sanctions against Moscow could play a role in the fact that the Russian authorities requested the upcoming meeting,” Trump added.
Context
On August 13, Trump held an online saammit with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and other European leaders, it was a meeting of Trump with Putin. The French President Emmanuel Macron, who took part in the conversation, said, according to her results, that Trump during a meeting with Putin wants to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Negotiations in Alaska will also take place in the group format according to the Five by Five formula, says Putin’s assistant Yuri Ushakov. On the Russian side, it will be Ushakov himself, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, as well as the head of the direct investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev.
On August 14, the US President in an interview with Fox News Radio said his meeting in Alaska with an illegitimate president of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation has 25% of the chances of failure.
