Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska for Ukraine talks next week
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet next Friday in Alaska Discussing the future of the war in Ukraine.
Trump announced the meeting on social media on August 15, and later considering the relative proximity of Alaska to Russia, it was confirmed by a spokesman for a Kremlin, who said that the earth was “quite logical”.
The spokesman added that Trump was invited to Russia for a potential second summit.
There was no reaction from Ukraine.
The announcement of the meeting came only a few hours after Trump pointed out that Ukraine may have to leave the region to end the war that began with Russia’s full -scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.
“You’re looking at the fighting area for three and a half years, many Russians are dead. Many Ukrainian died.” He said.
“Very complex. We will go back a little, we will make a little bit. The regions will be a little change, both to improve both.”
The President of the United States did not give more details about how this offer would look.
But, BBC’s US partner CBS NewsBy referring to the sources familiar with discussions, he states that the White House is trying to accept European leaders of Russia’s entire Donbas region in East Ukraine and accept an agreement to protect the Crimea.
The CBS reported that he would give up the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, which were partially occupied as part of the proposed agreement.
Early on Friday, Wall Street Journal reported that Putin proposed a similar arrangement to Trump’s ambassador Steve Witkoff at the last meeting in Moscow.
Considering that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Putin have been separated under peace conditions, Ukraine and European allies remain unclear whether they will accept such an agreement.
Zelensky rejected any prerequisites for regional privileges in a round way.
A senior White House official said that the meeting planning of the next Friday was still fluent, and Zelensky was still able to participate in some capacity.
Moscow could not achieve a decisive breakthrough in full -scale invasion, but occupies about 20% of the Ukrainian region. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian attacks did not push the Russian forces back.
The three rounds between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul could not end the war, and the military and political prerequisites for peace for peace are seen as the actual capitulation of Ukraine by KYiv and its allies.
Russian demands include the fact that Ukraine has become an impartial state, significantly reduced its army and abandoning NATO requests, as well as abolition of Western sanctions brought to Russia.
Moscow also wants Kiev to withdraw his army from four regions in which Russia occupied in partially occupied in Southeast Ukraine and demobilized his troops.
However, Trump insisted that the US would make a “shooting” a tripartite peace agreement between countries on Friday.
“European leaders want to see peace, President Putin, I think he wants to see the peace and Zelensky wants to see peace.”
“President Zelensky needs to take everything in need, because he will have to prepare to sign, and I think he’s working hard to do it,” Trump said. He said.
Last month, Trump admitted that Putin was disappointed after the Fourth of Witkoff’s previous visits to the BBC.
In recent weeks, he hardened his attitude towards the Kremlin and implemented a deadline on Friday for Russia to take a ceasefire in Ukraine or to face more comprehensive sanctions.
However, as the deadline approached, the economic threat was rapidly overshadowed by Trump and Putin’s meeting plans to discuss a potential peace agreement.
No more sanctions on Russia from the White House on Friday.
Trump and Putin spoke on the phone in February with the first direct change between the leaders of the two countries since Russia’s full -scale invasion.
When he last met with a US President Putin, Joe Biden was in 2021 when he met the Russian President at a summit in Geneva, Switzerland.
