‘High stakes’: Donald Trump’s message before meeting with Vladimir Putin; departs for Alaska

Donald Trump is en path to Alaska for a extremely anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. Raising the expectations from the meeting, Trump commented “high stakes” before boarding the airplane.The US president has, nonetheless, put the probabilities of the summit failing at round 25 per cent, whereas suggesting {that a} profitable end result may pave the way in which for inviting Zelenskyy to a three-way meeting with Putin.“The second meeting is going to be very, very important, because that’s going to be a meeting where they make a deal,” Trump informed Fox News Radio on Thursday.“This meeting sets up the second meeting, but there is a 25 percent chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting,” he added.Scheduled to start out at 11.30am native time (1930 GMT) and adopted by a joint press convention, the meeting marks the primary summit between the 2 leaders since Putin met Joe Biden in June 2021.