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A meeting between Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin could take place as early as next week, a top Kremlin aide told CNN on Thursday.
Preparations for the meeting are already underway, and although it was “difficult to say” how long they will take, the goal is for the meeting to take place next week, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said, according to Russian state media RIA Novosti.
If not this week, definitely this year. That's at least how the gambling public sees things.
90 percent of those betting on a Trump and Putin meeting at the prediction market Kalshi believe this will occur some time in 2025.
If the meeting does go ahead, it would be the first held between the leaders of the two countries since 2021, when Putin met former President Joe Biden in Geneva, Switzerland. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
On Wednesday, Trump said there was a “good chance” that the two leaders could meet “very soon” to discuss a potential end to the war in Ukraine, hours after special envoy Steve Wikoff met Putin.
By Thursday, Putin said that the United Arab Emirates could be a “suitable” location.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk could also take part in the meeting.
Putin suggested that he generally has “nothing against” meeting with the Ukrainian leader, but that “certain conditions must be met for this.”
Zelensky said Thursday that “various potential formats for leader-level meetings to bring peace” were discussed, including “two bilateral (meetings) and one trilateral.”
“Ukraine is not afraid of meetings and expects the same brave approach from the Russian side. It is time we ended the war,” he said in a post on social media.
specific, If the President of the United States meets Vladimir Putin in 2025, then the market resolves to Yes. Outcome verified from White House and The New York Times.
A meeting will be included if the President and Vladimir Putin shake hands or speak to each other directly; the President merely attending the same conference or event as Vladimir Putin or being on a phone call with Vladimir Putin is not sufficient to resolve the market to Yes.
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- TC Jackson, Gambling911.com Political Correspondent
