Trump suggests 25% chance Putin meeting is a failure

US President Donald Trump predicted that his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has a 25% chance of failure, previewing the summit as an effort to set the table for a second meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reach a deal to end the years long conflict, Report informs via CNN.

Asked during an interview with Fox Radio’s Brian Kilmeade today whether there was any scenario where the meeting would be viewed as a failure, Trump said, “Yeah, 25%.”

“This meeting sets up the second meeting. The second meeting is going to be very, very important, because that’s going to be a meeting where they make a deal,” Trump said.

He suggested there would be “give and take” on boundaries and lands during a second meeting.

Tomorrow’s meeting, he said, is “like a chess game.”

“This meeting sets up the second meeting, but there is a 25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting,” he reiterated.

Trump also expressed openness to hitting Russia with additional sanctions if the meeting doesn’t end well.

“I would, yeah. … If it’s not solved,” he said, referring to the war in Ukraine.