President Trump said on Monday that he plans to use a Friday summit in Alaska to gauge whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end his war on Ukraine — and said he'd been disappointed in the past in Putin's actions.

"This is really a feel-out meeting, a little bit," Trump told reporters, predicting he would know "probably in the first two minutes" whether a deal would be possible.

"I may say, 'Lots of luck, keep fighting.' Or I may say, 'We can make a deal,'" Trump said.

Trump has long pledged to use his relationship with Putin to broker an end to the war, now in its fourth year.

But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European allies are concerned that Putin will press to take over large swaths of Ukrainian sovereign territory. Trump confirmed that he believes

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