President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday could shape the future of Moscow’s more than three-year war in Ukraine — for better or worse. Trump has made ending the war a priority focus in his second term,

President Donald Trump, who will meet with Putin at a U.S. military base in Alaska on Friday, has threatened “very severe consequences” if Putin doesn’t agree to end the war with Ukraine. Still, Trump hasn’t followed through on ratcheting up pressure on Russia after previous deadlines to end the war came and went.