Within hours of brokering a historic peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15 to discuss similarly resolving the war in Ukraine, which is now five months into its third year.
Trump's plan is to join Putin for a "feel-out meeting," confer afterward with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, and then at a later date, meet with both Putin and Zelenskyy in hopes of ironing out the details and ultimately sealing the deal.
'He's got approval to go to war and kill everybody, but he needs approval to do a land swap.'
Zelenskyy was evidently peeved that the initial summit would take place without him as well as by Trump's suggestion to reporters that