Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, i.e. US Air Force base.
The plane with Putin landed about 21 Polish time after a few hours flight from Magadan, where the Russian president stopped on his way to Alaska. Putin's plane landed almost half an hour after landing in the American Air Force One base.
A red carpet was spread on the airport plate for both leaders. Ok 21.20 Trump and Putin met on the airport. The leaders gave themselves their hands, there was a short exchange of sentences between them.
Meeting three out of three
Shortly before 21. It was reported that Instead of the planned conversation at the beginning of Trump and Putin's conversation, the first meeting of the leaders will also take part in the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. The Russian side, in addition to Putin, will be represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and adviser Putin Juri Ruszakow.
– The previously planned meeting in the face of President Trump with President Putin was converted into a meeting of three out of three. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the special envoy Steve Witkoff will join Trump – told the spokeswoman of the US President Karoline Leavitt traveling with Trump to journalists.
Next, there will be a meeting with lunch in an extended format. The American side will also participate in the finance minister Scott Bessent, Minister of Trade Howard Lutnick, head of Pentagon Pete HegeSeth and the head of the White House staff of Susie Wiles.
The first meeting in years
This is the first meeting of both leaders in years: the last time Trump (he was not president at the time) saw Putin personally in mid -2019 on the occasion of the G20 summit in Japan. The last meeting of any incumbent US president with Putin took place in June 2021 in Geneva (it was then Joe Biden). For Putin, it is an eighth visit to the USA: he recently visited this country in September 2015, participating in the UN General Assembly in New York.
What will the Trump-Putin meeting bring?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ministers of Trade and Treasury, Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent, as well as CIA director John Ratcliffe will be in the US delegation for Friday talks of US and Russia leaders. In total, the president is accompanied by a delegation of 16 people. Among them are also a special envoy of President Steve Witkoff, who recently visited Moscow, and spokeswoman for President Karoline Leavitt.
On the Russian side there will be The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, Putin's advisor for international Jurij Ruszakov, defense minister Andrey Biełousow, Economic Advisor Kiriłł Dmitryjew and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov.
Although the official schedule of the White House does not include this, According to the initial, original plans, four hours later, around 1.30 Polish time, there was to be a press conference – Although it is not yet known whether both leaders or just Trump will take part in it. Finally, only the “bilateral program” of Trump and Putin, lasting until 17.45 (at 3.45 in Poland), When the American president is to go back to the White House.
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According to the announcement of Trump and his surroundings, the main goal of the American president is to be listening to Putin, to understand his intention and obtain a suspension of weapons. Trump also said that he would talk about the conversion of territories, but he assured that he would not make any decisions in this matter, because they would be made during the next meeting with the participation of the Ukrainian president of Wołodymyr Zelanski – and perhaps European leaders – to which Trump wants to lead to Alaska shortly after the summit.
“I am expecting an interview report on the current intentions of the Russian side and its preparations for the meeting today,” emphasized Zielnski on Friday. He estimated that the rates of this meeting are “really high”.
“The most important thing is for this meeting to open the possibility of a real path to honest peace and a significant conversation between leaders in three -way format: Ukraine, the United States, Russian side. It is time to end the war, and Russia must take the right steps,” Telegram wrote in the message. He expressed hope for US support and assured that Ukraine was ready for maximally productive work in this process.
The Russians are counting on an economic agreement
On Thursday, the American president assessed the chances of the success of US-Russia talks in Anchorage at 75 percent. Earlier, he threatened “very serious consequences” if Putin did not agree to the suspension of the weapon. “If the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is bad, it ends very quickly, if he is good, he will bring peace,” Trump said. “High rate !!!” – he wrote on Friday morning on his Truth Social Social Platform.
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The Kremlin indicated that the main topic of the peak would be “regulating the Ukrainian crisis”, but leaders will also conduct talks on international security as well as commercial and economic cooperation of the USA and Russia, in which “there is a great unused potential”.
According to the reports of the British “The Telegraph”, one of such topics is the opening of Alaska to cooperate with the Russian mining industry. In turn, “Guardian” claimed that Putin, knowing about Trump's business approach to the world, will propose peace on his terms as a gate to lucrative possibilities. “Guardian” did not provide details of a possible proposal. Analysts suggest that the meeting organized in such a short time probably will not bring a significant breakthrough.
