Trump says he'll know in 2 minutes of meeting Putin if Ukraine ceasefire deal is possible
發佈日期: 2025-08-12 20:05
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet face-to-face in Alaska on Friday to discuss bringing an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump said he will know within the first two minutes of the meeting whether Putin is serious about making a deal to end the conflict.
This as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country keeps communicating with the U.S. at all levels ahead of Friday's summit.
Tracey Furniss reports.
All eyes will be on Alaska this week as U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin meet in America's largest state to see if a deal can be reached to bring peace to Ukraine.
The location in Alaska where the summit will be held has not yet been announced but people in Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, are hopeful a resolution can come about.
Jordan Canfield, a U.S. Army private said: "I'd hope to have them come to a better resolution, figure things out and be able to talk to each other in a reasonable manner because obviously it affects me and it affects everybody in the United States, but we'll see what comes soon."
Trump said he would know in the first few minutes of meeting Putin whether a deal will be made.
"Well, we're going to have a meeting with Vladimir Putin. And at the end of that meeting, probably in the first two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made.
We're gonna see what the parameters are. I'm then gonna call up President Zelenskyy and the European leaders right after the meeting."
This as the Ukrainian president said his intelligence reports show Putin is definitely not preparing for a ceasefire or an end to the war.
"Putin is determined only to present a meeting with America as his personal victory and then continue to act exactly as before, applying the same pressure on Ukraine as before," Zelenskyy said.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian soldiers of the Spartan brigade have conducted drills honing their skills for the battlefield in the Pokrovsk area of the eastern Donetsk region - now the epicentre of fighting.
Once home to about 60,000 people, the city has been under sustained Russian assault for months.
Russian forces have formed a pocket around Pokrovsk though Ukrainian troops still hold the city and street fighting has not yet occurred.
And medics at field hospitals say they have not seen gunshot wounds for months. Instead, most injuries now come from first-person-view drones.
These are remotely piloted devices loaded with explosives that allows the operator to see the target before striking.
The drones now have become the most feared weapon on the battlefield.
