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President Trump connected Friday said helium volition conscionable with Russian President Vladimir Putin successful Alaska adjacent Friday, hosting the Russian person successful the U.S. for talks astir ending the warfare with Ukraine.
“The highly anticipated gathering betwixt myself, arsenic President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, volition instrumentality spot adjacent Friday, August 15, 2025, successful the Great State of Alaska. Further details to follow. Thank you for your attraction to this matter!” Trump said on Truth Social.
Earlier connected Friday, the president confirmed helium would conscionable with the Russian person and said that swapping territories volition beryllium discussed arsenic portion of the imaginable bid talks. Putin reportedly presented the administration with a ceasefire connection that progressive Ukraine making territorial concessions.
“You’re looking astatine territory that’s been fought implicit for 3 and a fractional years. A batch of Russians person died, a batch of Ukrainians. So we’re looking astatine that, but we’re really to get immoderate backmost and immoderate swapping. It’s complicated. It’s really — thing easy. It’s precise complicated. But we’re going to get immoderate back. And we’re going to get immoderate switched,” Trump said.
“They’ll beryllium immoderate swapping of territories to the betterment of both, but we’ll beryllium talking astir that either aboriginal oregon time oregon whatever," helium added.
He said astatine the clip helium volition denote the determination “in a small while” but insisted helium didn’t privation to arsenic helium hosted the Armenia and Azerbaijan leaders to motion a bid agreement.
Asked if helium could soon beryllium hosting a akin lawsuit alongside Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said helium thinks “we person a changeable astatine it,” adding “we’re going to get it solved.”
He besides punted to Zelensky to hole to motion a ceasefire agreement.
“Now, President Zelensky has to get each of his, everything helium needs, due to the fact that he’s going to person to get acceptable to motion thing and I deliberation he’s moving hard to get that done,” the president said.
Trump had been weighing whether to conscionable with Putin, arsenic good arsenic Zelensky, successful the coming weeks and raised the thought of meeting with the 2 leaders during a telephone with European allies connected Wednesday, a root confirmed to The Hill. White House property secretary Karoline Leavitt this week said Russia had expressed an involvement successful gathering with Trump.
