‘Severe consequences’ if Russia won’t end war: Trump before Alaska summit with Putin | World News

US President Donald Trump warned Wednesday of “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to halt the war in Ukraine after their Friday summit in Alaska, without specifying what those measures would be.“There will be, I don’t have to say, there will be very severe consequences,” he said while speaking at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
When asked if he is confident he could get Putin to stop targeting civilians in Ukraine, Trump said, he has had “good conversations” with Putin, but the goes home and sees that “a rocket hit a nursing home or a rocket hit an apartment building and people are laying dead in the street.”
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“So I guess the answer to that is no, because I’ve had this conversation.”
Trump also said there was a chance of a second meeting involving Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which he predicted would be “more productive” than the one scheduled for Friday. “In the first meeting, I’m going to find out where we are and what we’re doing,” he said, adding, “I would like to do it almost immediately, and we’ll have a quick second meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy and myself, if they’d like to have me there.”
The US president said he plans to call Zelensky and other European leaders after Friday’s talks. He described his most recent conversations with them as “very good” and “very friendly,” rating them “a 10.”