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'We'll do
best we can,' Trump promises ahead of Putin summit
Meanwhile,
Trump’s interview with Fox News Radio has just wrapped up, with Trump signing
off with a promise on tomorrow’s Alaska meeting with Putin:
“We’ll do
the best we can, and I think we’ll have a good result in the end.”
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Security
guarantees, territorial disputes all part of talk about Ukraine, Rubio says
Separately,
US state secretary Marco Rubio said that security guarantees for Ukraine needed
to be part of peace talks with Russia, adding he was hopeful of imminent
progress towards ending the war, AFP reported.
Ahead of
the Trump-Putin summit on Friday, Rubio said that “to achieve peace, I think we
all recognise that there’ll have to be some conversation about security
guarantees.”
“There’ll
have to be some conversation about ... territorial disputes and claims, and
what they’re fighting over,” he added, Reuters said.
On a
future ceasefire, he said, “we’ll see what’s possible tomorrow.
Let’s see
how the talks go. And we’re hopeful.
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'25%'
chance meeting with Putin will end in failure if there's no second meeting with
Zelenskyy, Trump says
Trump got
also asked if he thought there was a chance of the meeting ending in failure.
In
response, he said he saw it as 25%.
He said
the main aim of tomorrow’s summit was to set up a second meeting – involving
Zelenskyy – to make a deal, comparing it to “a chess game.”
He argued
it would include “a give and take as to boundaries, lands.”
He then
said:
“There is
a 25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting, in which case
I will [return to] run the country and we have made America great again already
in six months.”
He also
suggested he could follow up with sanctions on Russia in that scenario.
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Trump
says Putin 'wants to get it done,' as he once again floats another meeting with
Zelenskyy
US
president Donald Trump is speaking to Fox News Radio right now, and he has just
said that he thought Russian president Vladimir Putin “wants to get it done” at
tomorrow’s summit in Alaska.
Asked if
his threats of sanctions may have influenced Putin’s decision to agree to a
meeting, he said:
“Everything
has an impact,” as he added that secondary tariffs against India “essentially
took them out of buying oil from Russia.”
“Certainly,
when you lose your second largest customer and you’re probably going to lose
your first largest customer, I think that probably has a role,” he said.
Trump got
also asked if he was ready to provide “economic incentives” to Russia to stop
fighting in Ukraine, but he declined to say, explaining he wouldn’t “want to
play my hand in public.”
He
repeatedly said that Russia had “a tremendous potential,” with value in “oil
and gas, a very profitable business.”
But Trump
stressed he was primarily interested in making progress with Putin, and he
would then immediately call Zelenskyy to “get him over to wherever we are going
to meet.”
“We have
an idea of three different locations,” he said, adding “including the
possibility, because it would be by far the easiest, of staying in Alaska.”
“If it’s
a bad meeting, I’m not calling anybody. I’m going home.
But if
it’s a good meeting, I’m going to call President Zelensky and the European
leaders.”
Addressing
the reports he could hold a joint press conference with Putin, he said:
“I’m
going to have a press conference. I don’t know if it’s going to be a joint. We
haven’t even discussed it. I think it might be nice to have a joint, and then
separates.”
But he
then added that he would hold a press conference in any scenario, even if the
talks collapse.
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