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US President Donald Trump announced on Friday August 8 on his Truth Social network, that his “eagerly awaited meeting” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would take place on Friday August 15 in the American state of Alaska (northwest).
Moscow confirms the holding of this summit intended to discuss a regulation of the war in Ukraine and which will include, according to the American president, territorial concessions.
The American president, who has repeatedly promised to end the war in Ukraine, has spoke several times on the phone with the Russian president in recent months, but has not seen him in person since his return to the White House in January 2025.
Rather than in neutral terrain, the meeting will take place in the vast and wild state of Alaska, in the extreme northwest of the American continent and near Russia, a territory that the latter had given in to America in the 19th century. The Kremlin confirmed this upcoming meeting on Saturday August 15 and described this choice of Alaska “fairly logical”. “Russia and the United States are close neighbors, with a common border,” said the Kremlin diplomatic advisor, Iouri Ouchakov, quoted by Russian agencies.
Russia also invited Donald Trump to visit Russia after the August 15 summit.
Trump announces “exchanges of territories for the benefit of each”
The appointment scheduled for Alaska will be the first first tête-à-tête between the two leaders since June 2019 in Japan, a year after a summit in Helsinki where Donald Trump had had a resolutely reconciling tone with the strong man of the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin has not walked American soil since 2015, under the chairmanship of Barack Obama.
This meeting at the top will take place without the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who continues to demand to have a voice in the chapter. The tenant of the White House, questioned earlier Friday to find out if Ukraine will have to make territorial concessions, replied that “there would be exchanges of territories for the benefit of each”, without giving details.
“We are talking about a territory on which the fights have been raging for over three and a half years (…) it’s complicated, it’s really not easy, but we are going to recover a game,” he added to the White House, alongside the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders, who had just signed a peace agreement.
Moscow claims that Ukraine gives him four partially occupied regions (Donetsk, Lougansk, Zaporijjia and Kherson), in addition to the Crimea annexed in 2014, and that it renounces Western arms deliveries and any membership in NATO.
Unacceptable requirements for kyiv, who wants the withdrawal of Russian troops from its territory and Western security guarantees, including the pursuit of arms deliveries and the deployment of a European contingent, to which Russia is opposed.