The meeting that the presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the United States, Donald Trump, will celebrate in Alaska on Friday to talk about the future of Ukraine will begin at 11.30 local time (21.30 in Peninsular Spain, and 15.30 in Washington), as reported on Thursday the Kremlin. The two leaders will deal with the “enormous potential” of economic ties between the two unjocorous countries, thus the possibility of ending the Ukraine War, as added Russian spokesman Yuri Ushakov.
First there will be a face to face between both leaders, accompanied only by the translators, to which delegations integrated by five officials will be added, explained in a telephone press conference Yuri Ushakov, advisor to the Kremlin for international policy.
Trump and Putin will appear together at a press conference at the end of the meeting, which will have on the base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. After the face of the two leaders, they will participate in the meeting, on the Russian side, Ushakov himself, as well as the Foreign Ministers, Defense and Finance, reports the Interfax news agency.
Trump’s main objective, as the main European leaders advanced on Wednesday, is to convince Putin that he accepts immediate fire and without conditions to begin negotiating a possible peace agreement. These negotiations, according to the American president, go through that Ukraine assumes that he must give control of part of the territory conquered by Russia.
The Russian army is moving this August in the front of Donetsk province at the highest speed in more than a year. Volodimir Zelenski, president of Ukraine, said on Wednesday that Putin “goes from lantern” and that he has no intention of stopping the war. Rather, on the contrary: he is preparing for new offensives, at least until winter, according to Zelenski.
To the Russian pressure on the war front, the pressure is added with its long -range bombings on the Ukraine rear. The summer of 2025 is being a record period in the use of pump and missile drones against the main cities of the country. This involves, as the United Nations has denounced this Thursday, that July was the month with more civil victims since 2022: 286 dead people and 1,388 wounds.
The White House has tried that Zelenski was present at the Alaska Summit, but Russian negotiators rejected it. Trump said Wednesday that if the appointment with Putin obtains positive results, the next step is to organize a trilateral meeting.
The economic part of the appointment between Putin and Trump will be predictably focused on a joint exploitation agreement of Russian natural resources. Washington imposed to kyiv, in exchange for maintaining his help to the invaded country, the firm last April of an exploitation contract in equal parts of Ukraine minerals between companies in both countries. The Kremlin reacted proposing a similar pact.
The British newspaper The Telegraph He says Thursday, from anonymous sources, that Trump wants to assure Putin, in exchange for accepting the end of the war, the Russian legitimacy to exploit minerals in the occupied territories of Ukraine and even a priority access for Russia to the natural resources of Alaska.
Aleksei Fadeev, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on Wednesday that his government will only accept for the peace that Ukraine recognizes the provinces totally or partially conquered by Russia: Donetsk, Lugansk, Jersón, Zaporiyia and the Crimean Peninsula. Ukrainian intelligence services have assured this Thursday that Putin will travel to the US with a presentation with data and historical maps that Trump should supposedly demonstrate that “Ukraine is a fictional state” and that their territories are part of the Russian Federation and other countries.
“The US administration is making sincere efforts to resolve the situation in Ukraine,” Putin said in a meeting this Thursday with the team of high positions with which he will travel to Alaska. The Russian president has also opened the door for Moscow and Washington to reach an agreement on nuclear strategic weapons after completing peace negotiations on Ukraine, as collected by the Russian news agency Tass.
For Putin, the appointment with Trump is a recognition on the international stage and a proof of the weakness of the International Criminal Court, which in 2023 issued an arrest warrant against him for the forced deportation of minors Ukrainians to Russia.
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