President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet each other next Friday, August 15, for the first personal meeting between the US and Russia leaders since Moscow launched his fatal invasion from 2022 in Ukraine.
The leaders are expected to meet each other in Alaska, Trump said in a position about the Social Truth.
“The long -awaited encounter between myself, as president of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, from Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025 in the large state of Alaska,” Trump wrote in his Friday evening post. “Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention for this issue!”
The location of the meeting was an important interest after the top was first driven after a call between Trump and Putin on Wednesday after the envoy Steve Witkoff traveled from the White House to Moscow to meet the Kremlin chef.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets the special envoy Steve Witkoff (R) of the American president in Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia on August 6, 2025. (Kremlin Press Office / Handout / Anadolu via Getty images)
Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and the VAE were all taken into consideration, with Putin originally Hungary’s beneficiary, according to sources that are familiar with the planning.
The Kremlin chef also shot the idea to meet in Italy, according to reports on Friday, because of the observed proximity of Rome with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy.
After the Wednesday Trump-Putin call, the US president also spoke with Zenskyy together with European leaders about the potential for a trilateral meeting.
Moscow – who has so far refused to keep direct meetings with Putin and Zenskyy – is probably not a trilateral meeting at any time, as the adviser to the foreign policy of Kremlin on Wednesday noted that the potential for such an meeting was called “” but “not discussed.”
On this photo supplied by the Ukrainian presidential press office, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenskyy, Right and President Donald Trump talk, while attending Paus Franciscus in Vatican, Saturday 26 April 2025. (Ukrainian presidential office via AP))
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Reporting later suggested that Putin may be open to meet Face -To -Face with Zenskyy, but only if certain “conditions” are met, although what these conditions are, remains unclear.
Putin has reportedly suggested that Ukraine would formally give up the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, which Moscow has annexed illegally in 2022, but has no complete control over.
Although Zenskyy has prevented similar territorial requirements by noting that under the constitution of Ukraine a national referendum should take place for territorial concessions.
Despite the enormous obstacles that remain, Trump seemed optimistic when he spoke with reporters on Wednesday that “there is a very good prospect that is that [Putin and Zelenskyy] Will “meet.
Zenskyy said that at least one bilateral encounter between the American and Russian leaders was presented, which would possibly be followed by a meeting with Trump, Putin and Zenskyy.
S President Donald Trump (R) meets Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) on the first day of the G20 top in Osaka, Japan on 28 June 2019. (Kremlin Press Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty images)
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It remains unclear what the president hopes to get definitively out of the meeting with Putin personally after expressing frustration with the Kremlin chef despite months of attempts to forge a ceasefires.
Trump would not comment on how likely that he thought that a peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv could be on the horizon and his earlier frustrations with Putin reflected by reporters: “I am rather disappointed with this one.”
