Donald Trump is set to meet with Vladimir Putin on August 15 in the US state of Alaska, the US president announced on Friday via Truth Social.
The summit between the two powers is intended above all to discuss the resolution of the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which will include, at least according to the White House occupant, land transfers.
Mr. Trump, who has promised countless times to put an end to this war, has spoken repeatedly on the phone with his Russian counterpart in recent months, but has not met him in person since returning to the White House on January 20.
The Trump-Putin meeting was "locked" in the vastness of Alaska Instead of neutral territory, their meeting was chosen to take place in the vast and wild state of Alaska, in the far north of the American continent, near Russia; this is a territory that the Russian Empire had sold to America in 1867.
Confirming the meeting, the Kremlin's adviser on diplomatic affairs Yuri Ushakov described the choice of this state as "quite logical", and stressed that the two leaders "will undoubtedly focus on discussing options to reach a peaceful and long-term settlement of the Ukrainian crisis".
After the Alaska summit, Moscow “will naturally seek to organize the next meeting between the presidents on Russian soil” and “a challenge to this end has already been sent to the American president,” Mr. Ushakov clarified.
First Trump-Putin meeting after 2019 This tete-a-tete between the two presidents will be the first since June 2019 in Japan, a year after the Helsinki summit, where Donald Trump had adopted a conciliatory tone towards the Kremlin strongman.
Mr. Putin had not traveled to the US since 2015, when Barack Obama was in the White House. The long-awaited meeting will therefore take place without Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has not stopped demanding that his voice be heard on this issue.
Trump: "There will be a land swap for the benefit of both countries"
The US president, asked earlier yesterday if Ukraine would make territorial concessions as part of a potential agreement, replied that "there will be a land swap for the benefit of both, but we will talk about that later."
"We are discussing a region where fighting has been raging for three and a half years, it is complicated, it is really not easy (...) but we will recover part of it," he said, avoiding being more specific, flanked by the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia, who signed a peace agreement yesterday.
Russian demands for Ukraine Russia demands that Ukraine formally cede four regions it partially occupies (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Kherson) and the Crimean peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, abandon its plan to join NATO and stop receiving Western military aid. These are demands that Kiev describes as unacceptable, which for its part demands the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory and security guarantees from the West, including arms deliveries and the deployment of European forces — these are red lines for the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin held talks yesterday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
These developments come after the US president issued an ultimatum to Russia last week – in theory, the deadline expired yesterday Friday – to make progress in negotiations with Kiev, under penalty of even harsher economic sanctions, both on Moscow and on its trading partners. The Russian military invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022, has cost a minimum of tens of thousands of deaths in both countries and devastation of enormous proportions.
Deadlock in Ukraine-Russia Negotiations After nearly three and a half years of war, the Ukrainian and Russian positions still seem irreconcilable. Russia is accused by Ukraine of leading the talks between them to a deadlock by continuing to make maximalist claims, while its armed forces have the advantage on the fronts and continue to seize territory.
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