New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Just days before his high-profile meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, US President Donald Trump said he is going there to "see what he has in mind," while also declaring that he would know "in first two minutes" whether a deal to halt the Ukraine war can be done. Donald Trump said he's going to walk out of the Alaska meeting if there is no deal and "that would be the end of it," he said.

Addressing a press conference at the White House, Donald Trump said, "At the end of that meeting, probably the first two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made."

He said he thought Friday's sitdown with Putin in Alaska would be "really a feel-out meeting." Trump added that "it'll be good, ...