WASHINGTON — (TNS) President Donald Trump downplayed expectations for his upcoming meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin as he seeks to end the war in Ukraine, casting it as a “feel-out meeting” and saying he would confer with Ukrainian and European leaders after the sitdown.

“I’m going to be telling him, ‘You got to end this war. You got to end it,’” Trump said Monday at a White House press conference. As he previewed the Aug. 15 summit with Putin in Alaska — the Russian leader’s first visit to U.S. soil in nearly a decade — Trump added that it wasn’t “up to me to make a deal.”

“I’m going to go and see the parameters,” Trump added. “I may leave and say, ‘Good luck,’ and that’ll be the end. I may say this is not going to be settled.”

He indicated he did not plan to invite Volodymy

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