Trump and Putin will meet on August 15 in Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine
It is not yet clear whether Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski will be represented in this meeting to try to reach an agreement.
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week, August 15, inAlaska, hours after he said he planned to hold a meeting "soon."
"As President of the United States, the meeting between me and Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place on August 15 in the state of Alaska. We will soon give further details. Thank you for your attention," the American president confirmed on the social media platform Truth Social.
On the other hand, the Russian authorities have confirmed the date and place of this "important" meeting, a decision which they have described as "logical".
"The US has just announced an agreement to hold a meeting between Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on Friday, August 15 in Alaska. Russia and the US are close neighbors and share the same border. And it seems entirely logical that our delegation should cross the Bering Strait and hold such an important and expected summit in Alaska between the leaders of both countries," said Kremlin spokesman Yuri Ushakov , according to statements collected by the Russian news agency Tass.
Ushakov said the two leaders will first address "the prospects for a long-term peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis." He also indicated that Moscow expects the next meeting between Putin and Trump to take place in Russia.
This Friday, Trump himself referred to the meeting between the two leaders, but gave no further details, arguing that he did not want to downplay the agreement recently signed at the White House by the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Trump initially said he would like to meet Putin earlier, but security reasons have delayed the circumstances of the appointment.
Territorial exchange
The US president advanced that a peace agreement in Ukraine, under US mediation, could include a territorial exchange between the Russian Government and Kiev that "would benefit both," but admitted that such a negotiation is "difficult." "We are talking about a territory contested for three and a half years, with the death of many Russians and Ukrainians."
Putin last met a US president in 2021 at a meeting with President Joe Biden in Geneva, while the last summit between Putin and Trump took place in Helsinki in 2018.
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