The White House publishes the Trump-Putin meeting agenda: Only their translators will accompany him.

And the White House has published the agenda of meeting the two leaders.

Main Clocks:

Trump started:

At 6:45 p.m. EDT (11:45 BST), the US president is expected to leave the White House for Anchorage, Alaska, where the talks will take place.

Appointment

Trump and Putin are expected to start discussions around 11:00 local time (20:00 BST) They will meet face to face, accompanied only by their translators.

Trump away

The American president is scheduled to leave Anchorage and return to the White House about 17:45 by Alaska (02:45) BST on Saturday).

Donald Trump spoke to the media at the White House, saying that if he wasn't president, Putin would “preferred much more... to take control of all Ukraine”, Adding: “But I'm president and he won't play with me”.

Trump said he would know that in the first few minutes if he and Putin had a good date, saying otherwise “would end very quickly”.

His goal for the talks, he said, is to prepare “table” for another meeting with Russian leader and Ukraine's President Zelensky.

Speaking to Fox News Radio earlier in the day, Trump said that if there is a “good meeting”, he will call Zelensky to fix another one, but added that there is “25% chance that this meeting is not successful”.

And the American president said there would have to be some “agreement” on the borders between Russia and Ukraine. /Periscopi/