LONDON -- President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska will be "a listening exercise," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday. The two sides are preparing for what could prove a pivotal meeting in Anchorage on Friday. Leavitt told reporters that a face-to-face meeting will give Trump "the best indication of how to end this war and where this is headed." "I think this is a listening exercise for the president," Leavitt said. "Only one party that's involved in this war is going to be present. And so this is for the president to go and to get, again, a more firm and better understanding of how we can hopefully bring this war to an end." Though details of Friday's meeting are still being ironed out, Leavitt said it was "part of
Trump-Putin meet will be 'listening exercise,' US says, as Kyiv 'mobilizes' allies

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