The Kremlin has announced that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will hold a joint press conference following their highly anticipated talks in Alaska on Friday, setting up another potential disaster for the U.S. president.

Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov confirmed the conference will take place after Trump and Putin hold an initial one-on-one meeting with interpreters in Anchorage, Russian state-owned news agency Interfax reported.

Negotiations over a Ukraine ceasefire are expected to dominate Friday’s summit. Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Putin for ignoring his pleas for a peace deal and continuing to kill civilians and bombard Ukrainian cities.

On Wednesday, Trump threatened Putin with “severe consequences” if Russia did not end the war, without specifying furthe

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