How Trump and Putin's past meetings went - and what to expect this time

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : In fact, Ukraine was raised in that very first meeting, when Trump highlighted Russia's efforts to destabilise its neighbour.
57% : Trump will be familiar with Putin's ability to dominate conversations with lengthy, quickly spoken monologues that give his conversant few opportunities to respond, according to diplomats who described the Russian leader's style to the BBC."Everything in all meetings with Putin is about power," observed Sir Laurie Bristow, the UK ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020.
53% : Fast-forward to 2025 - with Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine into its fourth year - and Trump is eager to play the role of peacemaker by negotiating a ceasefire.
52% : Getty ImagesPutin was pictured in close conversation with Trump at a second meeting in 2017 Trump and Putin again came face-to-face once more in 2017, at an economic forum in Vietnam.
49% : It was just months after Trump entered the White House, while Putin already had decades of political experience under his belt.
42% : ImagesPutin puts the ball in Trump's court during a meeting in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018Perhaps the most overt public display of friendliness between Trump and Putin came when they met for closed-door talks in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2018.Trump defended Russia over accusations of interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and sided with Putin over the assessments of his own intelligence agencies.
42% : The move earned him cross-party condemnation back home in the US.The Helsinki meeting also produced a memorably informal image of Putin gifting Trump a football from the recent men's World Cup, which had been hosted by Russia.
28% : "He will use his KGB training to try and manipulate Trump.
27% : In the years to come, the duo went on to express their mutual admiration - although Trump recently told the BBC he was "disappointed" with Putin over the bloodshed in Ukraine.
24% : Former Trump aide Fiona Hill agreed with Sir Laurie, recalling in an interview with the Telegraph her own experiences of dealing with Putin: "He does make fun of Trump.
22% : Trump said on Wednesday there would be "very severe consequences" if the Russian leader did not agree to end the war.

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