Breaking Donald Trump announced the date and place where he will meet Vladimir Putin: “More details will follow”
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2018. Photo: Profimedia
US President Donald Trump announced, on Friday night, that his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place next Friday, on August 15th. Trump says he will meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
If the meeting will take place, then this will be the first among the leaders of the two countries of 2021, when Putin has met with former President Joe Biden in Geneva, in Switzerland. Moscow launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
“The long -awaited meeting between me, as president of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin Putin will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State Alaska. More details will follow. Thank you for the attention paid to this issue,” wrote Donald Trump, on his platform.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed a mutual interest on Thursday for a meeting with US President Donald Trump, instead he estimated that the conditions are not yet met directly with Ukrainian leader Volodimir Zelenski, informs AFP and EFE.
Trump has made clear since Wednesday, when he had a telephone conversation with European leaders-including the British Prime Minister, the German Chancellor and the Finnish president-that he intends to meet with both Putin and Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelenski, who also participated in this telephone discussion.
A possible understanding of the territories
American and Russian officials work in the direction of an agreement on the territories for the summit for next week between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Bloomberg News said, citing people familiar with the subject.
A white house official said the Bloomberg article is a speculation. A Kremlin spokesman did not respond to the request to comment on the situation.
There were no immediate comments from the Ukrainian authorities. However, in a statement issued by the article-not mentioned-President Volodimir Zelenski said: “The United States are determined to achieve a ceasefire and we must support all constructive measures together. A dignified, reliable and sustainable peace can only be the result of our common efforts.”
Reuters mentioned that he could not check the details in the Bloomberg article for now.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claims four Ukrainian regions-Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporojie and Herson-in addition to Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014. The Russian forces do not control the entire territory of the four regions.
Ukraine had signaled an availability to be flexible in the efforts to conclude the war that devastated the cities and killed a large number of soldiers and civilians. However, to accept to lose a fifth of the country's territory would be painful and political for Zelenski and his government.
Donald Trump wants an agreement between Russia and Ukraine
Trump is trying to mediate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine since taking over his mandate, in January, asserting, during the election campaign, that he could end the war in just 24 hours.
In the months that followed, there were few progress, Moscow insisting that he wants peace, while intensifying the attacks on Ukraine.
Critics have suggested that Putin's actions of the last few months have been attempts to freeze discussions and to earn time for his troops to gain ground on the Ukraine Fighting Field.
Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly expressed the growing frustration compared to the fact that Putin says one, but does another.
“I have concluded an agreement four times, and then you go home and see that (Russia) has just attacked an asylum or something in Kiev. So what was that?” The American leader said in an interview with BBC News last month.
