{"id":4949,"date":"2025-08-15T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/we-never-make-any-predictions-russian-foreign-minister-on-trump-putin-talks-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:57:37","slug":"we-never-make-any-predictions-russian-foreign-minister-on-trump-putin-talks-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/we-never-make-any-predictions-russian-foreign-minister-on-trump-putin-talks-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We never make any predictions\u2019: Russian foreign minister on Trump-Putin talks in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"storyParagraphFigure\" readability=\"34\">\n<p>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said that his country&rsquo;s position on Ukraine war is &lsquo;clear and unambiguous&rsquo; and will be put forward at Friday&rsquo;s Summit talks between Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<figure class><span class> <picture><source media=\"(max-width:767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2025\/08\/15\/550x309\/Russia_US_Alaska_summit_1755264124508_1755264124612.jpg\" alt=\"Sergei Lavrov was responding to a question by the Russian state TV after reaching Alaska for talks to potentially end the three-year war in Ukraine.(X)\" title=\"Sergei Lavrov was responding to a question by the Russian state TV after reaching Alaska for talks to potentially end the three-year war in Ukraine.(X)\"><\/source><\/picture><\/span><figcaption>Sergei Lavrov was responding to a question by the Russian state TV after reaching Alaska for talks to potentially end the three-year war in Ukraine.(X)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lavrov was responding to a question by the Russian state TV after reaching Alaska for talks to potentially end the three-year war in Ukraine. He said that Moscow would not make guesses on the outcome of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We never make any predictions ahead of time,&rdquo; Lavrov said, wearing what appeared to be a shirt with &ldquo;USSR&rdquo; written across it in Cyrillic script.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lavrov, the Russian position on the issue is clear, but he did not elaborate on what exactly it was.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&hellip; our position is clear and unambiguous. We will present it,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Putin are meeting in Alaska on Friday to hold the first-ever summit talks between the US and Russian Presidents since Moscow&rsquo;s war in Ukraine started. While the Republican leader has indicated a &lsquo;land swap&rsquo; deal between Kyiv and Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who hasn&rsquo;t been invited to the talks, has ruled any such deal out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Zelensky, however, on Friday said that his country was &lsquo;counting on the US President&rsquo; to convince Russia to end the war it began in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Trump says Putin would have taken all of Ukraine if he wasn&rsquo;t President<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday that he would know within the first five minutes of the meeting with Vladimir Putin if it would be fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re gonna find out where everybody stands. And I&rsquo;ll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes&hellip; whether or not we&rsquo;re going to have a good meeting or a bad. And if it&rsquo;s a bad meeting, it&rsquo;ll end very quickly. And if it&rsquo;s a good meeting, we&rsquo;re going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future,&rdquo; CNN quoted Trump as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has long claimed that Putin would not have launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 if he had been President, and said Thursday that the war &ldquo;should have never happened.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If I weren&rsquo;t President, in my opinion, he would much rather take over all of Ukraine. But I am President, and he&rsquo;s not going to mess around with me,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>&lsquo;We never make any predictions&rsquo;: Russian foreign minister on Trump-Putin talks in Alaska<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said that his country&rsquo;s position on Ukraine war is &lsquo;clear and unambiguous&rsquo; and will be put forward at Friday&rsquo;s Summit talks between Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump. Sergei Lavrov was responding to a question by the Russian state TV after reaching Alaska for talks to potentially end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/we-never-make-any-predictions-russian-foreign-minister-on-trump-putin-talks-in-alaska\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018We never make any predictions\u2019: Russian foreign minister on Trump-Putin talks in Alaska&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}