India, Aug. 15 -- US President Donald Trump is set to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin for a highly anticipated meeting in Alaska on Friday, where the American leader will push for peace in Ukraine.

Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday that he would know within the first five minutes of the meeting if it would be fruitful.

"We're gonna find out where everybody stands. And I'll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes. whether or not we're going to have a good meeting or a bad. And if it's a bad meeting, it'll end very quickly. And if it's a good meeting, we're going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future," CNN quoted Trump as saying.

Trump has long claimed that...