US President Donald Trump has said he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss the end of the war in Ukraine, a potential breakthrough after weeks of frustration that he is no longer done to suppress the fighting.
The Kremlin has not yet confirmed the details Trump has announced on social media, but both countries said they were expecting a meeting to happen immediately after next week.
Such a summit may be a major war that began more than three years ago when Russia invaded its western neighbor and led to tens of thousands of deaths – although there is no guarantee that it will stop the fighting as Moscow and Kiev remain far apart under their peace conditions.
In comments to reporters in the White House before its publication confirming the date and place, Trump suggested that any agreement would probably include “exchanging territories”, but it did not give details. Analysts, including some close to the Kremlin, have suggested that Russia may suggest giving up the territory that controls outside the four regions that it claims to have been applied.
Trump said his meeting with Putin would come before any discussion for a meeting related to Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski. Previously, Trump also agreed to meet Putin, even if the Russian leader would not meet Zelenski. This feared in Europe that Ukraine could be aside in its efforts to stop the largest conflict on the continent after World War II.
If that happens, the meeting will be the first US-Russia summit of 2021, when then President Joe Biden then met Putin in Geneva.
Trump’s announcement that he plans to host one of America’s opponents on the American soil has broken with expectations that they will meet in a third country. The gesture is validated by Putin after the US and his allies have long sought to do it in Paria because of his war against Ukraine.
At the beginning of Putin’s term, he regularly met his colleagues in the United States. This dropped out and the tone became easier, as tensions were installed between Russia and the West after Moscow illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine in 2014 and faced allegations of pursuit of the US elections in 2016.
Putin’s last visit to the United States was in 2015 when he attended the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.
Trump climbed his ultimatum almost two weeks ago to impose additional sanctions against Russia and to introduce secondary tariffs aimed at countries that buy Russian oil if the Kremlin does not target an agreement.
The deadline was Friday. But the White House did not answer questions that evening about the condition of possible sanctions after Trump’s announcement as an upcoming meeting with Putin.
Before Trump announces a meeting with Putin, his efforts to put pressure on Russia to stop the fighting has not made progress. The biggest army of the Kremlin slowly progresses deeper in Ukraine for a large price in troops and armor, while mercilessly bombard the Ukrainian cities.
Intense battles continue
The Ukrainian forces are locked in intense battles on the front line of 1000 kilometers, which snakes from northeast to southeastern Ukraine. The Pokrovsk region in the East Donetsk region takes over the mainstream of the punishment while Russia seeks to explode in the neighboring region of Denpropetrovsk. Ukraine has a significant shortage of labor.
Intensive battles are also fought in the border region of Ukraine in northern sums, where the Ukrainian forces engage Russian soldiers to prevent reinforcements from there to Donetsk.
In the area of Pokrovsk in Donetsk commander, he said he believed that Moscow was not interested in peace.
“It is impossible to negotiate with them. The only option is to defeat them,” Buddha, commander of a drone unit in the Spartan Brigade, before the Associated Press. He only uses his call sign in accordance with the rules of the Ukrainian military.
“I would like them to agree and to stop all this, but Russia will not agree with it. He does not want to negotiate. So the only option is to defeat them,” he said.
Putin makes calls
The Kremlin said on Friday that Putin had a telephone conversation with Chinese leader Ci Jinping, during which he informed his results of his meeting earlier this week with Trump’s envoy Steve Vikof. Kremlin officials said the XI “expressed support for the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis in the long run.”
Putin should visit China next month. He also recently made telephone conversations with South Africa, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus leaders, the Kremlin said.
The calls suggested to at least one analyst that Putin might want to inform Russia’s most important allies of a potential agreement that could be reached at a Trump summit.
“This means that for the first time, some real peace agreement has been reached,” says Sergei Markov, a pro-Crem Moscow analyst.
The Warri Wash Institute, a cerebral trust in Washington, said in an assessment on Thursday that “Putin remains uninterested in the end of his war and is trying to get bilateral discounts from the United States without being significantly involved in a peaceful process.”
“Putin continues to believe that the weather is from Russia and that Russia can outlive Ukraine and the West,” the statement said.
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2025-08-08 23:04:25