JAKARTA - Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will discuss "major potentials" that have not been used for Russia-US economic relations as well as prospects for ending the war in Ukraine when they meet in Alaska on Friday, August 15 tomorrow.
The Kremlin adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said the summit would start at 19.30 p.m. local time.
The two leaders met in person, accompanied only by translators.
After that, delegates from the two countries will then meet, and the president will give a joint press conference.
US President Donald Trump previously threatened "very heavy consequences" against Russia if President Vladimir Putin disagreed to end the war in Ukraine.
"There will be consequences," Trump said at an event at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
When asked what the consequences meant meant meant a new sanction or tariff, Trump declined to explain.
"I don't need to say it," he said.
"There will be very heavy consequences," Trump stressed.
Trump previously threatened new sanctions against Moscow as punishment for Ukraine's war, setting last Friday as a time limit to enacting it unless Putin came to the negotiating table.
Trump said if his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin went smoothly on Friday, he would like to "immediately" arrange a second meeting and include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"We made a very good phone call," Trump said of a virtual meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders today.
Trump then discussed the next potential steps ahead of Friday's meeting this week.
"There is a high possibility that we will hold a second meeting, which will be more productive than the first because the first is that I will find out where we are and what we are doing," he said.
Trump said the second meeting would only be arranged if his meeting with Putin "goes smoothly."
He wants the second meeting to take place "almost soon" between Putin and Zelenskyy.
"And myself if they allow me to attend," he added.
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