Donald Trump wants to meet Wladimir Putin on August 15th in Alaska

Donald Trump will meet with the Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday, August 15th. The meeting will take place in the US state of Alaska, as the US President announced on his Truth Social platform.

The Kremlin also confirmed the meeting shortly afterwards And then invited Trump to Russia. Most recently, the two heads of state met during Trump’s first term in June 2019 on the edge of the G20 summit in Japan.

When asked about the conditions for a possible peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, Trump in the White House on Friday said that such an agreement would probably mean that “there will be a exchange of areas”. He did not continue what such an exchange could look like and which territories would be affected. “It is really not easy,” said Trump.

Since taking office, the US President had repeatedly emphasized that he wanted to end the war in Ukraine quickly. He initially approached Moscow and on the phone with Putin several times. Most recently, however, he increasingly expressed critically about the Russian president and had threatened sanctions.

On Tuesday last week, July 29, Trump had set a period of ten days and asked for a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev during this period. If this did not happen, he announced sanctions against trading partners in Russia – and shortly afterwards India already took new punitive tariffs because of his oil transactions with Moscow. However, these should only come into force on August 27th. This deadline now seems to be running on Friday (local time) without Trump has occupied further states with new taxes in the context of the Ukraine War.

Before the meeting became known at the presidential level, the US specialist Steve Witkoff traveled to Moscow and had spoken to Putin for the fifth time. The exchange was described by the Kremlin as constructive – similarly, it was expressed in Washington.

It is still open whether there will also be a meeting between Putin and the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj. Selenskyj had repeatedly asked for such a conversation. Trump also emphasized the need for direct discussions between Moscow and Kyiv at the highest level. However, the Kremlin always made it clear that the prerequisites would first have to be created-meant agreements at the expert level about a peaceful solution to the Ukraine conflict. So far this is not in sight.