Russia-Ukraine War: Why is there a meeting of Vladimir Putin in Donald Trump, Alaska and will Zelancesi be present? All you need to know
US President Donald Trump is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, August 15, in a bid to make a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. The conflict began with the Russia’s invasion in February 2022 and dismissed several rounds of talks.Announcing a meeting on truth social, Trump called it “highly anticipated” and promised more details soon. “As the President of the United States, and as President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the much -awaited meeting between himself will be held in the great state of Alaska next Friday, August 15, 2025. Further details. Next details. Thank you for paying attention to this matter!” Trump posted.Trump told reporters that he had planned to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine with Putin.The talks would mark Putin’s first visit to the United States in a decade, his last visit was for the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2015.
When and where will the leaders meet?
Speaking at the White House on Friday, Trump said he believes that he has indicated “to achieve peace” between Ukraine and Russia and possibly “exchange of regions”, although he did not offer any special offer. “They would like to meet with me, whatever I can do to stop the murder, I will do,” Trump said on Thursday referring to both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski.Trump told reporters that he believes that Putin is open to end the struggle, saying, “President Putin, I am confident, want to see peace.”The meeting follows Trump’s special messenger, Steve Vitcooff, follows the journey to Moscow, who proposed a three-way summit with Zelancesi. However, Kremlin colleague Yuri Ushkov confirmed Russia “completely” ignored that option.Kremlin confirmed the Alaska Summit, calling it the “logical” next step in ongoing efforts to end the war.The meeting will be Trump’s most direct effort that is “within 24 hours” to fulfill the promise of his campaign to end the war, a pledge that has faced frequent failures repeatedly despite phone calls, peace talks and diplomatic visits.
Why is Putin meeting in Trump, Alaska?
The summit will be held in Alaska, a symbolic place Russia was sold to the US in 1867. Alaska’s western tip is located across the Bering Strait from the eastern point of Russia. Ushakov said that the region is the place where the US and the Russian “difference of economic interests” and “massively, possibilities for mutually beneficial projects” provides “.“There are also Alaska and Arctic, where there is a difference of economic interests of our countries, and there are possibilities for large -scale, mutually beneficial projects,” Kremlin’s colleague Yuri Usakov said in a statement on Telegram.He said, “But, of course, the President himself will undoubtedly focus on discussing options to achieve a long -term peaceful disposal of the Ukrainian crisis,” he said.While the main agenda will be Ukraine, Ushakov said Russia has invited Trump to hold the next meeting on Russian earth. “A compatible invitation has already been sent to the US President,” he said.The arrest of the warrant for an international criminal court (ICC) Putin, for which the member states need to detain him. If he enters his area, he was widely expected to limit potential places for the meeting.Putin had earlier swimmed the United Arab Emirates as a potential host, while media reports estimated that Türkiye, China or India could serve as an alternative.
Will Zelancesi join?
Zelancesi repeatedly pushed to the three-way summit, called direct conversation with Putin “the only way to progress towards peace”.Russia has denied this for now, stating that Putin-Jalensky may meet only once in the “final stage” of the conversation. Asked whether meeting Zelansky was a condition, Trump replied: “No, he does not.”
When were the previous meetings?
Trump and Putin last met personally at the G20 summit in Japan in 2019, and first held a high-profile summit in Helsinki in 2018.Biden last met Putin in Geneva in June 2021, a summit by American officials later described as “concentrated and practical” exchange between the two leaders.Despite the harassment of diplomacy, Moscow and Kyiv stay away. In a June talks, Russia reiterated its demands: Ukraine should withdraw from four regions. Moscow claims should be anxked, declare neutrality, denoun the western military support and permanently claim to be excluded from NATO membership.Meanwhile, Kiev is calling for an immediate ceasefire and insists that it will never recognize Russian control over its sovereign region.
