Live Trump Meeting – Putin: US President is sure to reach an agreement / latest information about what's going on in Alaska

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet on Friday in Alaska, the US president hoping to get a fire in Ukraine from Vladimir Putin, but he could receive only a possible nuclear agreement that would help them to save their reputation following the discussions that will be followed by the world. The meeting between Russia's leaders and US at an air base in Alaska during the Cold War, their first face -to -face discussion since Trump's return to the White House, takes place against the background of Ukraine and Europe that Trump could betray Kiev.

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The US and Russia delegates are accommodated in student dormitories in the largest city in Alaska, writes the Russian press.

Some of the Russian and American delegations arrived at the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump from Anchorage was accommodated in a university home due to the lack of hotel, TASS, the main Russian state news agency, citing the Alaska News Source portal on Friday.

US president is sure to reach an understanding

The Trump meeting-Putin takes place on Friday at 11:00 (22:00 Romania time), in Anchorage, Alaska, the White House announced, in a statement quoted by Reuters. Previously, the Kremlin had announced that the summit starts at 11:30 local time (22:30, Romania time).

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the Russian ambassador in the US, Alexander Darchiev, arrived in Alaska before the meeting between Trump and Putin.

Vladimir Putin stopped on Friday in the Magadan region of the Far East before his meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov announced.

“This bilateral format only favors Russian President Vladimir Putin,” explained, in a discussion with Hotnews the director of the Bucharest Bureau of the German Marshall Fund (GMF)-an international organization that promotes transatlantic cooperation-and a teacher of international diplomacy, Clara Volintiru.

Trump said on Thursday, convinced that Putin will “make an understanding” for peace in Ukraine at the Alaska summit, but he did not give more details: “I do not want to show my books in public.”

“I think he is now convinced that he will make an understanding. He will make an understanding. I think so. And we will know, I will know very quickly,” Trump said.

Europe and Ukraine, encouraged by the latest talks with Trump

Trump, who once said he would end the Russia's war in Ukraine in 24 hours, said on Thursday that the conflict that lasts for three and a half years has proven to be more difficult to resolve than he believed, notes Reuters.

He said that if his discussions with Putin will go well, the organization of a subsequent summit between the three parties, with the Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelenski – who was not invited to the Friday Summit – would be even more important than his meeting with Putin.

A source from Ukraine minimized the chances of Zelenski's participation in any kind of peace negotiations in Alaska immediately after the Friday summit.

Trump pressure for a truce, to strengthen his credibility as a global mediator worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, which is important for him.

Ukraine and its European allies were encouraged by the telephone conference on Wednesday, in which, according to them, Trump agreed that Ukraine should be involved in any discussion on the transfer of territories.

Zelenski said Trump also supported the idea of security guarantees in a post-war agreement, although the US president has not made any public mention in this regard.

Wednesday's conversation attenuated their fears about an agreement between Trump and Putin that would let Ukraine under pressure make territorial and other concessions.

Putin, whose war economy shows signs of tension, needs Trump to help Russia get out of the western sanctions increasingly more strict or at least not hit Moscow with more sanctions, which Trump has threatened several times.

“It seems already agreed, Trump cannot be refused.”

The day before the summit, the Kremlin leader offered the perspective of another thing he knows that Trump wants: a new nuclear weapon control agreement that will replace the last agreement in the field, which is about to expire in February next year.

Trump said on the eve of the summit that he believes that Putin will conclude an agreement on Ukraine, but had an oscillating attitude in terms of progress. The Kremlin leader, meanwhile, praised what he called the US “sincere efforts” to put an end to the war.

A source close to the Kremlin told Reuters that it seems that the two parties have managed to find a common ground, without revealing what the Americans and the Russians understood. ”

“It seems that tomorrow (Friday) some terms will be agreed, because Trump cannot be refused, and we are not able to refuse (because of the pressure of sanctions),” said the source, which spoke under the condition of anonymity.

Putin put strict conditions for establishing a complete armistice, but a compromise could be a cessation of the fire in the air war, although both parties have accused each other of violating a previous agreement.

What game will a little do?

Analysts say that Putin could try to give the impression that he gives Trump what he wants, while remaining free to escalate the conflict in Ukraine, if he wants.

“If they (the Russians) are able to put on the table an agreement that will create some kind of fire, but to leave Russia in controlling the dynamics of climbing, without creating any real discouragement on the ground or in the airspace of Ukraine … It would be a wonderful result from Putin's perspective,” said Sam Greene, the director of the European Politics.

Zelenski accused Putin of blipping and drawing time to avoid US secondary sanctions and excluded any territory to Moscow.

Trump said the transfers of territories between Russia and Ukraine could be a possible solution to get out of the deadlock.

Putin, whose forces control almost a fifth of Ukraine, wants Trump to begin to revive the economic, political and commercial connections between the two countries and, ideally, not to condition this process of progress in Ukraine.

It is not clear, however, whether Putin is willing to compromise on Ukraine. In power for a quarter of a century, the Kremlin chief has put into play his political legacy to get out of the war with something that can present to his people as a victory.

Its main war objective is the full control of Russia over the Donbas industrial region in eastern Ukraine, which includes the Donetk and Luhansk regions. Despite the constant advances, about 25% of Donets remains outside the Russian control.

Putin also wants full control over the Ukrainian regions Herson and Zaporojie, eliminating from the discussion of NATO of Kiev and limiting the dimension of the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukraine has said that these conditions are unacceptable and are equivalent to a survey.