President Donald Trump stated on Friday he might be assembly with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin subsequent Friday, Aug. 15 in Alaska.
“The extremely anticipated assembly between myself, as President of the USA of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will happen subsequent Friday, August 15, 2025, within the Nice State of Alaska. Additional particulars to observe. Thanks to your consideration to this matter!” he posted on his social media platform.
Earlier, he had hinted on the timing and site, saying, “I believe you will be very pleased.”
“We’re going to have a gathering with Russia. We’ll begin off with Russia and we’ll announce a location. I believe the placement might be a very fashionable one for lots of causes. However we’ll be saying that just a little bit later. I simply do not need to do it now due to the significance of what we simply did,” Trump stated as he hosted the leaders Armenia and Azerbaijan on the White Home for a peace summit.
Requested if that is Russia’s final probability to attain piece, Trump responded, “I do not like utilizing the time period ‘final probability.”
“I believe my intestine intuition actually tells me that we have now a shot at it. You may discover that out afterward, perhaps even immediately, however we have now a shot at it,” he stated.
Friday marked the deadline Trump set for Putin to comply with a ceasefire with Ukraine or face “secondary sanctions” in opposition to international locations that purchase oil from Russia.
However uncertainty stays as as to whether the U.S. will hit Moscow with new financial penalties as focus turns to the one-on-one assembly between Trump and Putin. Trump didn’t touch upon the deadline as he took questions from reporters on the White Home.
Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin speak through the household photograph session on the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017.
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Trump on Thursday was requested immediately if his Aug. 8 deadline for Putin to make peace or face penalties nonetheless utilized.
“It is gonna be as much as him,” the president responded. “We will see what he has to say. It is gonna be as much as him. Very upset.”
The White Home was pushing for a trilateral summit between Trump, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, although Trump stated Putin assembly with Zelenskyy wasn’t a situation for he and Putin to fulfill.
Nonetheless, Trump stated on Friday the Ukrainian president will get “every part he wants.”
“The European leaders need to see peace. President Putin, I consider, needs to see peace. And Zelenskyy needs to see peace,” Trump stated.
The president was requested if Zelenskyy should hand over territory in any deal to finish the battle, which started when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
“We’re taking a look at that however we’re really trying to get some again and a few swapping. It is difficult. It is really nothing straightforward, it is very difficult. However we’ll get some again, and we’ll get some switched. There might be some swapping of territories to the betterment of each,” Trump responded.
“We’re prepared, along with President Trump, along with all our companions, to work for an actual and, most significantly, lasting peace — a peace that won’t collapse due to Moscow’s needs,” Zelenskyy stated in an announcement on Saturday morning.
“The Ukrainian folks deserve peace,” the assertion continued. “However all companions should perceive what a worthy peace is. This battle have to be ended, and Russia should finish it.”
President Donald Trump in Washington, Aug. 6, 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome, July 10, 2025 and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Aug. 5, 2025.
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Trump, who as soon as stated he may finish the Russia-Ukraine battle inside his first 24 hours in workplace and touted his private relationship with Putin, has expressed growing frustration with the Russian chief.
In mid-July, Trump stated he was giving Putin a 50-day ultimatum to cease the combating. He then moved up the timeline to 10 days, citing his disappointment with Putin.
“I need to be beneficiant, however we simply do not see any progress being made,” Trump stated on the time. “I am not so enthusiastic about speaking anymore. He talks, we have now such good conversations, such respectful and good conversations, after which folks die the next evening in a — with a missile going right into a city and hitting.”
Tensions between the U.S. and Russia escalated final week when Trump introduced he was transferring nuclear submarines in response to what he known as “extremely provocative statements” from the deputy chair of Russia’s safety council, Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev, additionally the previous president of Russia, had sounded off on Trump’s ceasefire deadline, writing on social media that “every new ultimatum is a menace and a step in direction of battle.”
Whereas Trump stated the nuclear submarines could be moved in response, he and the White Home wouldn’t specify what capabilities the submarines have or different questions surrounding the announcement.
And earlier this week, Trump not directly upped the stress on Russia by doubling his tariff fee in opposition to India over India’s imports of Russian oil.
