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Leaders will deal with the war in Ukraine and should speak to journalists after the meeting
Presidents of the United States (Republican Party) and Russia (independent) will meet in Alaska (USA) on Friday (15.2025), with the aim of discussing the end of the war in Ukraine. .
Trump is determined to submit a proposal with several economic concessions to Russia in exchange for peace. According to the site, the White House confirmed that the 2 presidents will conduct an interview to journalists after the meeting.
Read below what is known about the meeting:
- The possibility of a presidential summit emerged at a meeting on August 6. On August 8, Trump announced that he would meet Putin in Alaska;
- The announcement of the meeting came when he expired the deadline given by the US for Russia to accept a ceasefire, at risk of severe secondary sanctions against countries that continued to buy Russian oil;
- European and Ukrainian authorities are afraid that Trump is on Putin’s side at the meeting and pressures the president of Ukraine (servant of the people, center) to make major concessions;
- According to Kremlin, there will be an individual meeting only with the presidents and their translators, and an extended meeting with their delegations;
- Trump said he will call the president of Ukraine and several European leaders after the meeting ends to inform them of what was discussed;
- Presidents must meet in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city. No specific place has been announced, but the newspaper The New York Times said that the;
- Leaders will discuss the terms of a possible peace agreement in Ukraine, although Trump has stated that only Russia and Ukraine can sign final agreements. Moscow suggested that the Economic Cooperation could be on the agenda;
- Putin has already raised the possibility of claiming two regions of Ukraine (Donetsk and Luhansk), maintaining Russia’s current positions in Zaprizia and Kherson. ;
- although neither Russia nor Ukraine has shown a willingness to give lands in peace agreements;
- Trump said he could offer Putin. He also intends to include in the rare mineral proposal of Ukraine and the end of some sanctions against the Russian aeronautical industry;
- Since Trump returned to the White House, he and Putin have talked only over the phone.
