‘Putin will not mess with me’: Trump before meeting in Alaska; US President says Russia, Ukraine will make ‘peace’

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, would not “mess with a summit” between two world leaders in Alaska.The US President will hold a face-to-face conversation with Putin at the US military base on Friday to negotiate a possible ceasefire in Ukraine. During a press conference at the White House, Trump admitted that Putin is interested in acquiring full regional control of Ukraine, but insisted that he will not be with him as an US President.I think President Putin would like to see a deal. I think if I had not been a President, he would have captured all of Ukraine. This is a war that should never happen. In my opinion, if I was not President, he would not have taken much but to all of Ukraine. But I am President, he is not messing with me.He also proposed that European leaders could be invited to attend the second meeting, which would include Volodimier Zelancesi. Trump told Fox News Radio that the main objective of yesterday’s meeting is to establish a conversation between Putin and the Ukrainian President, saying that he has three places for such a meeting. The US President, who is preparing to meet his Russian counterpart for the first time since 2018, expressed confidence that the two leaders would “make peace”. White House press secretary Karolin Lewitt said that Friday’s conversation between the presidents would include a meeting each, a bilateral lunch and a press conference with a bilateral lunch. Earlier on Thursday, Putin praised Trump’s “honest efforts” to end the war in Ukraine, telling the Kremlin officials that the US was “quite energetic and honest to stop the fight”. Following this commentary, the UK Prime Minister Sir Kire Stmper hosted Volodimier Zelansky at Downing Street for talks, congratulating the Ukrainian President with a warm neck outside his residence.