Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska
President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a military base in Anchorage on Friday in an effort to advance peace in Eastern Europe.
The summit came at President Putin's request in response to sanction threats from Washington. “It’s like chess,” President Trump told Brian Kilmeade during an interview beforehand. “This meeting sets up the second meeting, but there is a 25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting.”
Both presidents ended the meeting saying they felt it had gone “very well.” “Many points were agreed to, and there are just a very few that are left,” President Trump said. After the talks, Trump made some late night calls to NATO officials and Ukranian President Zelensky and seemed optimistic for a peace deal Saturday morning. Zelensky will come to Washington on Monday, and if “if all works out,” Trump will schedule a trilateral summit with Putin and Zelensky.
Trump said after the meeting that he is more open to giving U.S. security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace agreement.
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