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Putin, Trump to hold 'one-on-one' talks in Alaska; war in Ukraine tops agenda

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US President Donald Trump said Thursday any deal on ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine would come only at a second, three-way meeting involving Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, rather than at Friday's Alaska summit with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

"The second meeting is going to be very, very important, because that's going to be a meeting where they make a deal. And I don't want to use the word 'divvy' things up. But you know, to a certain extent, it's not a bad term, okay?" Trump told Fox News Radio. Trump estimated that there was a one in four chance of his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday ending in a failure.

"This meeting sets up the second meeting, but there is a 25 percent chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting," he said.