“The long -awaited meeting between me as the president of the United States of America and Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place this Friday, August 15, 2025, in great condition Alaska. More details soon. Thank you for your attention! ” – Trump wrote on his Truth Social social platform.
The president did not mention the sanctions for Russia and her trading partners, whose imposition he announced earlier regardless of the plans of the peak with Putin. On Thursday, however, he said that his decision in this matter depends on the Russian president. It is also unclear whether there will be a meeting with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelnski, which originally announced Trump. According to CBS television, it is still possible that “in some way Zelanski will be involved in a meeting in Alaska.”
The end of the war is getting closer?
Even before the meeting of the meeting, On Friday, Trump claimed that the agreement on the end of the war was close and suggested that it assumes the exchange of territories.
– We look at the issue of the territory for which the fights took place for three and a half years, you know, many Russians were killed, many Ukrainians were killed. So we consider it, but we really want to recover some of them and make a exchange. It's complicated. Actually, it's nothing simple (…) we will exchange some of the territories to improve the situation of both sides – he said during the signing ceremony of the peace declaration between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Trump said that both Vladimir Putin and Wołodymyr Zełenski want peace, but noted that Zelanski must now “arrange everything he needs, because he would have to prepare for signing something.” In this way he seemed to suggest a potential change of the Ukrainian constitution, which did not allow territorial changes.
According to “Wall Street Journal” Putin told Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff that Russia would agree to complete suspension of weapons if Ukraine agrees to withdraw the army from the entire Donetsk and Lugansk region. In addition, Putin wants to recognize these circuits and Crimea as Russia. Putin, in turn, was to ensure that pride would accept a promising law, that he would not attack Ukraine or other European countries. Witkoff was to tell European leaders that the offer shows “Putin's actual movement towards peace”, although the final agreement may be different from the one proposed by the Kremlin.
A meeting in Alaska, a territory purchased by the USA from Russia in 1867, will be the first between Trump and Putin in the second term of the American president. However, both of them talked on the phone many times, although not all these conversations were officially disclosed. The place of the summit is a surprise, because the Kremlin suggested that it could occur in the United Arab Emirates, and among other selected locations were Italy, Switzerland and Hungary.
