US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, August 15, 2025, in Alaska, as Russia-U.S. efforts to rearrange a ceasefire settlement to cease the struggle in Ukraine attain a fever pitch. The information, revealed on Trump’s Fact Social web site, marks a turning level within the battle.
“The tremendously appeared ahead to assembly between myself, President of the US of America, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, will probably be subsequent Friday, fifteenth of August, 2025, within the Nice State of Alaska. Extra particulars to return. Thanks on your discover!” Trump penned. He had earlier said that the assembly would have been earlier however was delay by “safety preparations.”
This would be the first United States-Russia management summit since 2021, when then-President Joe Biden sat down with Putin in Geneva. The face-to-face assembly between Trump and Putin could also be a giant transfer to convey the lengthy struggle to its conclusion, though the numerous distinction by way of peace phrases between Moscow and Kyiv signifies that a right away stoppage of struggle is unlikely.
Attainable Territorial Alternate In Peace Settlement
President Trump offered some hints at what his deliberate peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine would seem like. He made a suggestion {that a} settlement would contain a “swapping of territories” between the 2 international locations, however didn’t present any additional particulars.
“We wish to get some again and a few swapping. It’s sophisticated,” Trump informed reporters on the White Home, including, “Nothing straightforward. However we’re gonna get some again. We’re gonna get some switched. There’ll be some swapping of territories, to the betterment of each.”
Analysts, together with some with shut connections to the Kremlin, have prior to now hypothesized that Moscow could deliberate on relinquishing management over territory it has occupied outdoors of the 4 that it unilaterally declared itself to have annexed.
When pressed whether or not this session was a “final probability” for a giant peace settlement, Trump complained about using the time period. “I do not like utilizing the phrase final probability,” he stated, stressing how arduous it’s to cease a struggle after it begins: “When these weapons begin going off, it is awfully robust to get them to cease.”
The summit is more likely to put direct, high-level diplomatic motion on the middle of world efforts to unravel the disaster in Ukraine.