Why are Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska?

The US and Russia agreed to hold a meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Friday, August 15th to discuss how the war in Ukraine would end.

Trump announced the meeting a week ago – the same day as the deadline for Russia to accept a ceasefire in Ukraine or face more US sanctions.

This summer, with Trump’s order between Russia and Ukraine, three rounds of meetings did not bring both sides closer to peace.

Here is what we know about the meeting between the two leaders in Alaska, which was once the Russian region.

The United States acquired Alaska from Russia in 1867 and gave a historical resonance to the meeting. In 1959 it became a US state.

Yuri Ushakov, a Russian presidential assistant, drew attention to the fact that the two countries were neighbors, and only the Bering Strait separated them.

“It seems very logical for the fact that our delegation flys only through the Bering Strait and a highly expected and expected summit of the leaders of the two countries in Alaska.” He said.

When Alaska took the center for the last time at an American diplomatic event, Joe Biden’s new diplomatic and national security team met with Chinese colleagues in Anchorage in March 2021.

Sit-Init became brutal, the Chinese accused the Americans of “despise and hypocrisy”.

The White House will be in the meeting in Anchorage.

While declaring the duo, Trump said it would be “a very popular place for a few reasons” without explaining that it would be in the biggest city of the state.

The couple will be held in Alaska’s largest military installation in Elmendorf-Richardson.

Trump is forced to end the war in Ukraine without being very successful.

As a presidential candidate, he promised to end the war within 24 hours after he took office. In addition, in 2022, during the invasion of Russia, he repeatedly defended that the war would “never”.

Last month, Trump told BBC that he was “disappointed” by Putin.

Dream crumbs grew, and Trump sets the last date for Putin to immediately accept his ceasefire or to face more violent US sanctions.

As the deadline for application, Trump announced that he and Putin will meet personally on August 15th.

According to Trump, the meeting comes after having a “extremely productive” talks with Putin in Moscow on Wednesday by the US special ambassador Steve Witkoff.

Before the meeting, the White House tried to play speculation that it could provide a binary ceasefire.

“This is a listening exercise for the president,” the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. He added that Trump could go to Russia after Alaska trip.

Speaking to journalists on Monday, Trump said he saw the summit as a “feeling meeting” aiming to call Putin to end the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not expected to participate. Trump said on Monday: “I can say he could go, but he went to many meetings.”

However, Trump said Zelensky would be the first person to call later.

A White House official said that Trump and Zelensky would meet on Wednesday before the US President’s summit with Putin. A few European leaders will attend the Zelensky meeting.

Putin, the White House previously said that Trump was willing to keep all three leaders in three sides, but wanted Zelensky to be excluded.

Zelensky said that any agreement without Ukraine’s input will be “dead decisions”.

Both Russia and Ukraine say that they have wanted to end the war for a long time, while both countries want things that the other has hardly opposes.

Trump said on Monday “he will try to get some of them [Russian-occupied] Soil for Ukraine.

However, Ukraine was determined that the regions that Moscow seized, including Crimea, would not accept Russian control.

Zelensky pushed the regions back against the idea of “exchange” this week.

“We will not reward Russia for continuing Russia.” He said.

Meanwhile, Putin did not pass his regional demands, the impartiality of Ukraine and the future magnitude of his army.

Russia launched the full -scale occupation of Ukraine, partly on Putin’s Western Defense Alliance NATO’s belief, and used the neighboring country to gain a basis to bring the troops closer to the Russian borders.

BBC’s US partner CBS News reported that the Trump administration is trying to shake European leaders upon the ceasefire agreement that will deliver the fields of Ukraine to Russia.

The agreement would allow Russia to continue control of the Crimean Peninsula and would take the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine, which consists of Donetsk and Luhansk, according to sources familiar with negotiations.

In 2014, Russia invaded the Crimea illegally and controlled most of the Donbas region.

Within the scope of the agreement, Russia would have to give up the Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which is currently available for some military control.

Speaking with FOX News, US Vice President JD Vance said that any future agreement would “not be very happy to anyone”.

“You have to make peace here… You can’t pointing to the finger,” he said.

“The way to peace is to have a decisive leader to sit and force people to come together.”